Gomukh, otherwise called "Gaumukh" or Gomukhi" (Hindi: गौमुख or गौमुखी ; Assamese and Bengali: গোমুখ or গোমুখী), is the end or sulk of the Gangotri Glacier and the wellspring of the Bhagirathi River, one of the essential headstreams of the Ganga River. The word Gomukh/Gaumukh (go/gau=cow, mukh= face) in a real sense signifies "Face of a Cow." The spot is arranged at a tallness of 13,200 ft (4,023 m) in Uttarkashi region in the province of Uttarakhand, India. It is one of the biggest in the Himalayas with an expected volume of more than 27 cubic kilometers. It is a sacred Hindu journey site, alongside Gangotri, just as traveling destination.[1][2] In 1972,Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam the then Prime Minister of Mauritius, brought the sacred Ganga water from Gomukh and blended it in with the water of Grand Bassin in Mauritius and renamed it as Ganga Talao for the Mauritian Hindus.
In 2013, because of downpour in Uttarakhand, immense breaks had arisen on the glacial mass. On 26 July 2016, following substantial rains in Uttarakhand, it was accounted for that the front finish of Gomukh was no more, as a huge lump of the ice sheet had imploded and was washed away.