Kori Creek

Kori Creek lies beside the Great Rann of Kutch, where the lower course of an older Indus distributary became a tidal inlet. Its history shows that the shape of a coast can change within a single generation. The earlier Nara River carried water south through Sindh; its lower estuarine section entering the Rann was known as the Puran or Kori River.

This older river should be distinguished from a smaller later stream also called Nara in Kutch. In 1819 a major earthquake raised the Allah Bund and cut off the freshwater connection from the Indus. The former river mouth consequently became the tidal inlet called Kori Creek. Kori belongs to a larger deltaic landscape in which river branches, marshes and sea inlets do not form permanent boundaries. Its earlier channel is linked with the historic Nara and Ghaggar-Hakra systems, but that ancient relationship is distinct from the dated earthquake of 1819, which gave the coast its decisive change.