Question

write short note on the topic Ganga Brahmaputra basi

Answer 1

Situated in the Northern half of the Indian sub continent, the Ganga-Brahmaputra basin constitutes the second largest hydrologic region in the world. The total drainage area of the basin region is about 17 4 million hectare spreading over India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan in South Asia and Tibet region of China north of Himalayan divide. Nestled amidst the natural watersheds of the Himalayas in the north (and beyond into Tibet), Vindhayas in the south, the Aravalis in the west, Patkai, Naga and Lushai hills in the east. The Ganga-Brahmaputra basin is a single, sprawling, integrated, transboundary drainage system with a common terminus. The basin consists of two major river systems of the Ganga and the Brahmaputra and one relatively smaller river system of the Barak, which becomes the Meghna in Bangladesh.