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    The Padma River is the downstream section of the combined Ganges and Jamuna rivers after their confluence in Bangladesh. It is 120 km long and 4 to 8 km wide, forming an important transport route. Several distributaries branch off from the Padma as it flows southeast towards its confluence with the Meghna River. The massive Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river system and its seasonal flooding has formed one of the world's largest delta complexes, draining an average of 35,000 cubic meters per second but up to 750,000 cubic meters during monsoon season. The shifting channels and sediment deposition play a key role in the hydrology and development of the

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    The Padma River is the downstream section of the combined Ganges and Jamuna rivers after their confluence in Bangladesh. It is 120 km long and 4 to 8 km wide, forming an important transport route. Several distributaries branch off from the Padma as it flows southeast towards its confluence with the Meghna River. The massive Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river system and its seasonal flooding has formed one of the world's largest delta complexes, draining an average of 35,000 cubic meters per second but up to 750,000 cubic meters during monsoon season. The shifting channels and sediment deposition play a key role in the hydrology and development of the

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    The Padma River is the downstream section of the combined Ganges and Jamuna rivers after their confluence in Bangladesh. It is 120 km long and 4 to 8 km wide, forming an important transport route. Several distributaries branch off from the Padma as it flows southeast towards its confluence with the Meghna River. The massive Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna river system and its seasonal flooding has formed one of the world's largest delta complexes, draining an average of 35,000 cubic meters per second but up to 750,000 cubic meters during monsoon season. The shifting channels and sediment deposition play a key role in the hydrology and development of the

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    Padma River

     বাাংলা

    Padma River the downstream of the ganges, more precisely, the combined flow of the Ganges
    and the jamuna after their confluence at goalandaghat. In Bangladesh the Ganges is popularly
    known as the Padma from its point of entrance at Manakosa and Durlabhpur unions of shibganj
    upazila, nawabganj district. This name (Padma or Podda) is sometimes applied to the Ganges as
    far up as the point at which the Bhagirathi leaves its rightbank, and according to the Hindus, it
    takes the sanctity of the Ganges with it. It is hydrographically more correct to use the name
    Ganges to refer to the river up to its confluence with the Jamuna (brahmaputra), and the
    downstream after the confluence as the Padma. The Padma is also sometimes wrongly referred to
    as the Ganges. The river between Aricha and Sureshwar (Chandpur) is therefore best called
    Padma.

    The Padma is 120 kilometres long and from 4 to 8 km wide. The very important Goalandaghat-
    Chandpur steamer route is mostly on this river. Near Tepakhola, 14 km from Goalandaghat, the
    small Faridpur Khal distributary takes off from the rightbank. Fifty kilometres further down the
    arial khan takes off from the rightbank. Fourteen kilometres further downstream the Lohajang
    river falls into it at lohajang upazila on the leftbank, and the Kristanagar river branches off from
    the opposite side. A few kilometres from Lohajang, the Shosha Khal and the Naria Khal take off
    from the rightbank, join up and as one stream falls into the Arial Khan south of madaripur. The
    Padma joins the Meghna 5 km from Sureshwar in a maze of shifting shoals and chars. The
    Lower Meghna is actually a continuation of the joint flow of the Padma and the Meghna.

    The Ganges-Padma is the major hydrodynamic system that formed one of the world's largest
    delta complex covering a major portion of the country and also a greater part of West Bengal in
    India. For a long period of development of the Ganges Delta, the river shifted southeast and has
    reached its present position in the Bengal Basin. The hydrology and drainage systems of the
    Ganges Delta in the southwestern part of Bangladesh are intimately related to the mighty Ganges
    and the fluvio-hydrological setting of the Bengal Basin. The deltaic estuaries of the Ganges-
    Brahmaputra-Meghna system drain the combined discharges of these river systems, amounting
    on an average of 35,000 cumec. However, during the monsoon the discharge of the Padma rises
    to the order of 750,000 cumec with a corresponding increase in its sediment load. The low-level
    discharge of the river during the dry season is of the order of 15,000 cumec, and naturally very
    little sediment is borne by the river during this period. In the deltaic portion the river width
    ranges from 1.6 to 8.0 km and sometimes it shows a braided character although it is a
    meandering river. [Masud Hasan Chowdhury]

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