The main Ravi River flows through the base of Dalhousie hill, past the Chamba town. It is at an elevation of (where a long wooden bridge existed to cross the Ravi River). It flows into the south-west, near Dalhousie, and then cuts a gorge in the Dhauladhar Range, before entering the Punjab plain near Madhopur and Pathankot. It then flows along the Indo-Pak border for before entering Pakistan and joining the Chenab River. The total length of the river is about .