Devaprayag

(“divine confluence”) Sacred town
(tirtha) in the northern part of the state
of Uttar Pradesh, in the Himalaya
Mountains about sixty miles up the
Ganges from the city of Haridwar.
Devaprayag is sacred because it is at the
confluence of the Bhagirathi and
Alakananda rivers, the largest Himalayan
tributaries of the Ganges. Devaprayag is
the final such river confluence in the
Himalayas, and it is at this confluence
that the Ganges is definitively formed as
one indivisible sacred stream.