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The region gently slopes towards the south east and consists of three regions: Upper, Middle and Lower Ganga Plains. The Upper Ganga Plain stretches 149,000 km 2 (58,000 sq mi) from the Shivalik range in the north and the Deccan Plateau in the south with the Yamuna River forming the rough western boundary. The region extends 550 km (340 mi) in ...
The Ganges Basin is a major part of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) basin draining 1,999,000 square kilometres in Tibet, Nepal, India and Bangladesh. To the north, the Himalaya or lower parallel ranges beyond form the Ganges-Brahmaputra divide. On the west the Ganges Basin borders the Indus basin and then the Aravalli ridge.
The Rarh region lies between the Chota Nagpur Plateau on the west [9] and the chief flow of the Ganges river (which has been continuously changing) in the east. [1] The Rarh plains comprise the lower Gangetic plains to the south of the Ganges, and to the west of its Bhagirathi-Hooghly distributary. [10] These plains are formed of old alluvial ...
The Ganga is also the mother, the Ganga Mata (mata="mother") of Hindu worship and culture, accepting all and forgiving all. [80] Unlike other goddesses, she has no destructive or fearsome aspect, destructive though she might be as a river in nature. [80] She is also a mother to other gods. [84]
The Ganges originates from the Gangotri Glacier in Uttarakhand. [64] It flows southeast, draining into the Bay of Bengal. [28] (The Yamuna and Gomti rivers also arise in the western Himalayas and join the Ganges in the plains. [28] The Brahmaputra originates in Tibet, China, where it is known as the Yarlung Tsangpo River) (or "Tsangpo").
The ecoregion is currently densely populated, and the fertile plains have largely been converted to intensive agriculture, with only a few enclaves of forest remaining. A 2017 assessment found that 3,544 km 2, or 1%, of the ecoregion is in protected areas. [2] Protected areas in the ecoregion include: [1] Jim Corbett National Park
The Padma-Ganges is the central part of a deltaic river system with hundreds of rivers and streams—some 2,100 kilometres (1,300 mi) in length—flowing generally east or west into the Padma. The third network is the Surma-Meghna River System , which courses from the north-eastern border with India to Chandpur, where it joins the Padma.
The Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests is a tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests ecoregion of Bangladesh and India.The ecoregion covers an area of 254,100 square kilometres (98,100 sq mi), comprising most of Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Bihar and Tripura, and extending into adjacent states of Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and a tiny part of Assam, as well as ...