Jhelum River The Jhelum has its source in a spring at Verinag in the south-eastern part of the Kashmir Valley.
It flows northwards into Wular Lake (north-western part of Kashmir Valley). From Wular Lake, it changes its course southwards. At Baramulla the river enters a gorge in the hills.
The river forms steep-sided narrow gorge through Pir Panjal Range below Baramula.
At Muzaffarabad, the river takes a sharp hairpin bend southward.
Thereafter, it forms the India-Pakistan boundary for 170 km and emerges at the Potwar Plateau near Mirpur.
After flowing through the spurs of the Salt Range it debouches (emerge from a confined space into a wide, open area) on the plains near the city of Jhelum.
It joins the Chenab at Trimmu.
The river is navigable for about 160 km out of a total length of 724 km.
