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Brahmaputra

River in Asia 2,900 km/1,800 mi long, a tributary of the Ganges, rising in the Himalayas range, and flowing through Tibet, India, and Bangladesh.

It rises in the Himalayan glaciers as the Tsangbo (or Zangpo) and runs east through Tibet, to the mountain mass of Namcha Barwa, passing through gorges over 5,000 m/16,000 ft deep. Turning south, as the Dihang, it enters India and flows into the Assam Valley near Sadiya, where it is now known as the Brahmaputra. It flows generally west until, shortly after reaching Bangladesh, it turns south and divides into the Brahmaputra proper, without much water, and the main stream, the Jamuna, which joins the Padma arm of the Ganges. An enormous delta has been built by the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers and their distributaries, and the floodplains are heavily cultivated in both India and Bangladesh. The river is navigable for 1,285 km/800 mi from the sea.


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In the event of global warming, the parts that would be most affected, really, are the rivers and deltas: the delta of the Nile, of the Ganges, of the Brahmaputra.
Before draining into the Bay of Bengal, two of South Asia's greatest rivers, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra, converge and split into hundreds of different channels that spread like capillaries through a broad delta spanning the border between India and Bangladesh.
The sediment load, transported to the Bay of Bengal by the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, includes nutrients that could support plankton blooms.
 
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