Penna Delta

The Penna reaches the Bay of Bengal after a long journey north and east from the Nandi Hills. Its lower course crosses the Andhra country behind the Coromandel coast, a shore backed by the Eastern Ghats. In the seventeenth century European trading companies competed along this coast, with the Dutch established at Pulicat to the south and the English at Masulipatnam to the north. Their ships joined older maritime routes across the bay.