Karkat Waterfall

Karkat, or Karkatgarh, Waterfall drops on the Karmanasa River at Karkatgarh village in the Kaimur Range of Bihar's Kaimur district. The fall is about 300 feet wide and 100 feet high. Mughal rulers and British officials once came here to hunt crocodiles, and the British built a dak bungalow overlooking the water; the officer Henry Ramsay described it as the finest of falls. It now lies inside the Kaimur Wildlife Sanctuary, set up in 1979, and hunting is banned.

At least 75 crocodiles have been counted in the river at the falls, and the state government is developing the site as a crocodile conservation reserve and eco-tourism spot. Funds were sanctioned in 2016 and 2018 for studies, the Wildlife Institute of India has been gathering data, and the plan includes two ponds where females can lay eggs and raise their young.