page_title: Brahmaputra River
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Brahmaputra River / History
caption_attribution_description: Brahmaputra by SPOT Satellite
context_page_description: The Brahmaputra, called Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet, Siang/Dihang River in Arunachal Pradesh and Luit, Dilao in Assam, is a trans-boundary river which flows through Tibet, India and Bangladesh. It is the ninth largest river in the world by discharge, and the 15th longest.
  With its origin in the Manasarovar Lake region, near the Mount Kailash, located on the northern side of the Himalayas in Burang County of Tibet as the Yarlung Tsangpo River, it flows along southern Tibet to break through the Himalayas in great gorges and into Arunachal Pradesh. It flows southwest through the Assam Valley as Brahmaputra and south through Bangladesh as the Jamuna. In the vast Ganges Delta, it merges with the Padma, the popular name of the river Ganges in Bangladesh, and finally, after merging with Padma, it becomes the Meghna and from here, it flows as Meghna river before emptying into the Bay of Bengal.
  About 4,696 km long, the Brahmaputra is an important river for irrigation and transportation in the region. The average depth of the river is 140 m and maximum depth is 370 m. The river is prone to catastrophic flooding in the Spring when the Himalayan snow melts.
caption: Brahmaputra River seen from a spot satellite
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