Sharavati Mouth

The Sharavati meets the Arabian Sea at Honnavar, a port on the coast below the Western Ghats. Arab traders visited the town, and later Portuguese, English and Dutch merchants came to its shores. The Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta reached Honnavar in 1342 and described its society and government, praising Sultan Jamaluddin as a powerful ruler. The river mouth thus opened onto a coast connected with the wider Indian Ocean.