Dhaleshwari
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| location | Dhaka Division , Bangladesh | |
| River system | Meghna | |
| Drain over | Shitalakshya → Meghna → Bay of Bengal | |
| origin | Branch off the Jamuna in Tangail district | |
| muzzle | in the Shitalakshya River
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| length | 160 km | |
| Big cities | Dhaka | |
Dhaleshwari is a 160 km long, up to 81 m deep estuary of the Jamuna in Bangladesh .
Starting from the Jamuna, it is first divided into a northern arm, which retains the name, and a southern arm, which takes the name Kaliganga. After the union of the two arms, the Dhaleshwari flows into the Shitalakshya River, which flows into the Meghna .
In earlier times it probably flowed in the bed of the Padma , until the Padma changed its course between 1600 and 2000 AD.
In the 2010s, the Dhaleshwari has proven to be prone to pollution. One of the causes is the settlement of tanneries in the Hazaribagh area , where similar pollution had occurred in Buriganga .
Web links
Commons : Dhaleshwari River - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ A b R. C. Majumdar: History of Ancient Bengal, 1971, reprint 2005, pp. 3-4
- ↑ Real, Md.KH, Khanam, N., Mia, Md.Y. and Nasreen, M. (2017) Assessment of Water Quality and Microbial Load of Dhaleshwari River Tangail, Bangladesh. Advances in Microbiology, 7, 523-533
- ↑ Now tannery wastes polluting Dhaleshwari river