The cities of Baramati, Saswad and Jejuri, the place of Lord Khandoba, lie on the banks of this river.

[1] The area around Baramati taluka suffers from an acute water crisis each year as the Karha river goes dry.

A temple of Lord Ganesha, one amongst the Ashtavinayaka, the Moreshwar of Moregaon is situated on the banks of the river.

On the banks of the Karha, a great Marathi socialist writer and filmmaker, P. K. Atre was born.

His series of books on the movement, Karheche Pani कऱ्हेचे पाणी is a famous piece of literature in Marathi.