Har Har Gange - Ganga Stotram -The life Giver to Millions of People !Sunderbans.

en.wikipedia.org The Ganges basin is a part of the composite Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna basin draining 1086000 square kilometres in Tibet, Nepal, India and Bangladesh. To the north, the Himalaya or lower parallel ranges beyond form the Ganges-Brahmaputra divide. On the west the Ganges Basin borders the Indus basin and then the Aravalli ridge. Southern limits are the Vindhyas and Chota Nagpur Plateau. On the east the Ganges merges with the Brahmaputra through a complex a system of common distributaries into the Bay of Bengal. Its catchment lies in the states of Uttar Pradesh (294364 km²), Madhya Pradesh (198962 km²), Bihar (143961 km²), Rajasthan (112490 km²), West Bengal (71485 km²), Haryana (34341 km²), Himachal Pradesh (4317 km²) and Delhi (1484 km²), the whole of Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan. Several tributaries rise inside Tibet before flowing south through Nepal. The basin has a population of more than 500 million, making it the most populated river basin in the world. The basin comprises semi-arid valleys in the rain shadow north of the Himalaya, densely forested mountains south of the highest ranges, the scrubby Shiwalik foothills and the fertile Gangetic Plains. Central highlands south of the Gangetic Plain have plateaus, hills and mountains intersected by valleys and river plains. The important soil types found in the basin are sand, loam, clay and their combinations such as sandy loam, silty clay etc. The annual surface water potential of the basin has been ...

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