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Bottom left: Map of the Yarlung Tsangpo River watershed which drains the north slope of the Himalayas. This is a list of dams on the Brahmaputra River and hydro–infrastructure in the Brahmaputra River Basin which is a key constituent of the Ganges -Brahmaputra basin of Himalayan rivers.
The Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna system has the second-greatest average discharge of the world's rivers—roughly ~44,000 m 3 /s (1,600,000 cu ft/s), and the river Brahmaputra alone supplies about 50% of the total discharge.
The Brahmaputra Valley (also Assam Valley) is a region situated between hill ranges of the eastern and northeastern Himalayan range in Eastern India.. The valley consists of the Western Brahmaputra Valley covering the regions of Goalpara and Kamrup; the Central Brahmaputra Valley region covering Darrang, Nagaon and the North Bank and Eastern Brahmaputra Valley comprising districts of Sonitpur ...
The state of Assam comprises three physiographical divisions, namely, the Brahmaputra Valley, the Barak Valley and the Karbi-Anglong and the North-Cachar hills. [1] The Brahmaputra Valley in Assam is approximately 80 to 100 km wide and almost 1000 km long. The width of the river itself is 16 km at many places within the valley.
The Joint River Commission was a bilateral working group established by India and Bangladesh in the Indo-Bangla Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Peace that was signed on March 19, 1972, and came into being in November 1972. As per the treaty, the two nations established the commission to work for the common interests and sharing of water ...
In December 2017, the union minister Nitin Gadkari flagged off 2 barges of 200-tonne capacity each carrying a total of 400 tonnes of cement from the Pandu Port to Dhubri Port for a distance of 255 km, resulting in reduction of 300 km of road travel and logistics costs for this Sagarmala project to connect Northeast India and to enhance movement for the Indian Armed Forces by setting up roll on ...
The Dihing [3] or Burhi Dihing (Dihong = wide river) is a large tributary, about 380 kilometres (240 mi) long, [2] of the Brahmaputra River in Upper Assam in northeastern India. The river originates at 2,375 metres (7,792 ft) above sea level in the Eastern Himalayas (the Patkai Hills) [ 2 ] in Arunachal Pradesh and flows through Tinsukia and ...
A view of Jamuna River from Jamuna Bridge. In Bangladesh, the Brahmaputra is joined by the Teesta River (or Tista), one of its largest tributaries. James Rennell made a survey between 1764 and 1777 and his maps are one of the earliest authentic maps of Bengal in existence. In these maps, Teesta is shown as flowing through North Bengal in ...