The Western Ghats, too known as the Sahyadri mountain extend, could be a mountain extend that covers an range of 160,000 km2 (62,000 sq mi) in a extend of 1,600 km (990 mi) parallel to the western coast of the Indian promontory, navigating the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. It could be a UNESCO World Legacy Location and is one of the 36 biodiversity hotspots within the world. It is now and then called the Incredible Slope of India. It contains an awfully huge extent of the country's greenery and fauna, numerous of which are endemic to this region.[5] Agreeing to UNESCO, the Western Ghats are more seasoned than the Himalayas. They impact Indian rainstorm climate designs by interference the rain-laden storm winds that clear in from the south-west amid late summer. The run runs north to south along the western edge of the Deccan Level and separates the level from a limit coastal plain called the Western Coastal Fields along the Middle eastern Ocean. A add up to of 39 ranges within the Western Ghats, counting national parks, natural life asylums and save timberlands, were assigned as world legacy locales in 2012 – twenty in Kerala, ten in Karnataka, six in Tamil Nadu and four in Maharashtra.