River part 6

   Brahmaputra river

 
Brahmaputra mean a chicken of large asian breed.
  • . It mean a son of Brahma.
  • . Old Sanskrit name is lauhitya.
  • Native inhabitants (bodos) call the river bhullan- buthur means making gurling sound.
  • . It's a trans-boundary river(china, india and Bangladesh.
  • Mainly its a example of braided river.
  • . In NCERT Book its length is -2880km
  • . 9th largest river in the world.
  • . 15th longest river in the world.


Kanchenjunga is the 3rd highest mountain in the world.

Source:
Chemayundung glacier of the kailash range,
East of the mansarover lake.

But the new opinion said that angsi glacier in Tibet, South-east of mount Kailash and lake Manasarovar.

Here the river know as yarlung Tsangpo.
. Runs parallel to Himalayas for 1200km in Tibet.

. Truns South creating a deep geoge through the Himalayas near namcha barwa and enters india through Arunachal Pradesh.

          ENTRY IN INDIA

. Wen it enters in India Arunachal Pradesh its name is - Siang river.
.On plain in Arunachal its Dihang.
. Flows for about 35km South ward joined by Dibang river and lohit river near sadiya town,at head of Assam valley.

Dihang+Dibang+Lohit=Brahmaputra

Enter assam and become very wide as wide as 20km in parts of Assam.

Local name of brahmputra in Assam is luit.

Between Dibrugarh and lakhi mpur district of Assam, River divide s into two channels.
. Northern kherkutia channel

. Southern Brahmaputra channel


. Two channels join again about 100km downstream forming the MAJULI ISLAND
Is the largest river island in the World.

  Course in Assam

  • . At Guwahati, Brahmaputra cuts through Shillong plateau.
  • . Battel of Sarai ghat was fought here (Mughals empire Vs Ahom kingdom)
  • . The first rail cum road bridge across the Brahmaputra- at Sarai ghat.
  • . Brahmaputra receives various Tributaries in Assam valley.
  • . Number of right bank tributaries greater than left bank.




  Course in Bangladesh

  • In Bangladesh Brahmaputra enters the plains region after turning South around the garohills below dhuburi (assam).
  • .In Bangladesh it join tista river from right bank tributaries.
  • . Brahmaputra splits into two distributaries.


. The western branch
. The eastern branch

.The  western branch as the jamuna- to merge with the lower ganga (Padma)- North to golundo ghat.


. The eastern branch, is much smaller- old Brahmaputra-it curves south east to join the Meghna river near Dhaka.

            Tributaries of brahmputra

Left bank tributaries
  • . Dibang
  • .lohit
  • . Dihing
  • . Dikhou
  • . Dhansiri.
  • . Kopili


Right bank tributaries

  • . Subansiri
  • . Kameng
  • . Barnadi
  • . Manas
  • . Sankosh
  • . Teesta (Bangladesh)




Note: Brahmaputra tributaries details should be explain in next part.




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