Brahmaputra & Its Tributaries

• The Brahmaputra Valley has an average width of about 80 Km.
• The main river of the valley, Brahmaputra is one of the largest rivers in the world and rank fifth with respect to its average discharge.
• The river originates from the Kailash ranges of Himalayas at an elevation of 5300 M.
• After flowing through Tibet it enters India through Arunachal Pradesh and flows through Assam and Bangladesh before it joins Bay of Bengal.
• Brahmaputra sub-basin extends over an area of 580,000 sq.km lying in Tibet (China), Bhutan, India and Bangladesh.
• The drainage area lying in India is 194413 sq.km which is nearly 5.9% of the total geographical area of the country
• It is bounded on the north by the Himalayas, on the east by the Patkari range of hills running along the Assam-Burma border, on the south by the Assam range of hills and on the west by the Himalayas and the ridge separating it from Ganga sub-basin.
• The sub-basin lies in the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, West Bengal and Sikkim.