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The Satpura Range is a range of hills in central India. The range rises in eastern Gujarat state near the Arabian Sea coast, running east through Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh to Chhattisgarh. The range parallels the Vindhya Range to the north, and these two east-west ranges divide the Indo-Gangetic plain of northern India and Pakistan from the Deccan Plateau to the south. The Narmada River runs in the depression between the Satpura and Vindhya ranges, and draining the northern slope of the Satpura range and running east towards the Bay of Bengal. The Tapi River drains the southern slopes of the western end of the Satpura Range. The Godavari River and its tributaries drain the Deccan plateau, which lies south of the central and eastern portions of the range, and the Mahanadi River drains the easternmost portion of the range. The Godavari and Mahanadi rivers flow into the Bay of Bengal. At its eastern end, the Satpura range meets the hills of the Chota Nagpur Plateau.
The Satpura Range was formerly heavily forested; most of the forests have been cleared, but some significant stands of forest remain. These forest enclaves provide habitat for some of India's remaining large mammals, including tiger (Panthera tigris), gaur (Bos gaurus), wild dog (Cuon alpinus), sloth bear (Melursus ursinus), chousingha (Tetracerus quadricornis), and blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra). The eastern portion of the range receives more rainfall than the western portion, and the eastern range, together with the Eastern Ghats, constitute the Eastern highlands moist deciduous forestsecoregion. The seasonally dry western portion of the range, together with the Narmada valley and the western Vindhya Range, are within the Narmada valley dry deciduous forests ecoregion.
Satpura National Park is located in south Hoshangabad district in Madhya Pradesh.
The 524 Sqkm Park is the core area of the Panchmarchi Biosphere Reserve that includes Bori wildlife sanctuary to its south-west and Panchmarhi wildlife sanctuary to its north-east.
Satpura National park has mammals including tiger,bison,sambar,gaur,giant squirrel,nilgai,cheetal,flying squirrel and dhole.One is likely to find birds such as Crested serpent eagle, honey buzzard, fl eagle, Malabar pied hornbill, paradise fly catcher.
North of the Satpuras is,the rich valley of the Nerbudda, which may be said to begin towards the north of the Jubbulpore district and to extend westward through the district of Narsinghpur as far as the western limit of Hoshangabad, a distance of nearly 300 m.
Berar consists mainly of the valley lying between the Satpura range of mountains in the north and the Ajanta range in the south.
In the Satpura districts the inferior soil was and is principally devoted to hill millets.
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