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[name] => {:en}Hakaluki Haor{:}{:bn}হাকালুকি হাওড়{:}
[post_id] => 6360
[post_link] => http://offroadbangladesh.com/bn/places/hakaluki-haor/
[thumb_link] => http://offroadbangladesh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Hakaluki-Haor1-300x225.jpg
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Hakaluki Haor is a marsh wetland ecological system of Eastern Bangladesh in an area bordering Assam, India. It is one of Bangladesh's largest and one of Asia's larger marsh wetland resources. Some 190,000 people live in the surrounding Hakaluki Haor area.
Hakaluki Haor was designated an Ecologically Critical Area (ECA). It’s also a protected Ramsar site of international importance for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands.
The surface area of Hakaluki Haor is 181.15 km2, of which 72.46 km2 (40.01%) is within the territory of Barlekha Upazila. The Haor is partly under the jurisdiction of Barlekha Upazila.
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{:}{:bn}হাকালুকি হাওড় মূলত মৌলভীবাজার জেলার বড়লেখা উপজেলায় অবস্থিত। ভারতের আসাম সীমান্তবর্তী বাংলাদেশের পূর্ব অংশে অবস্থিত একটি জলাভূমি হল হাকালুকি হাওড়। এটি বাংলাদেশের বৃহত্তম এবং এশিয়ার অন্যতম বৃহৎ জলাভূমি। পরিবেশগত গুরুত্বপূর্ণ এলাকা (ইসিএ) হিসেবে ঘোষিত এই হাওড়ের আশেপাশে প্রায় ১,৯০,০০০ মানুষ বসবাস করেন। জলাভুমির যথাযথ ব্যবহার এবং সংরক্ষণের ওপর গুরুত্বের কারনে এই জলাভূমিটির সুরক্ষার ওপর আন্তর্জাতিকভাবে মনোনিবেশ করা হয়েছে। ১৮১.১৫ কিলোমিটার আয়তনের এই জলাভূমিটির প্রায় ৭২.৪৬ কিলোমিটার অর্থাৎ ৪০.০১% ভাগ বড়লেখা উপজেলায় অবস্থিত।{:}
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[name] => Sukh Sagar
[post_id] => 2082
[post_link] => http://offroadbangladesh.com/bn/places/sukh-sagar-mata-sagr/
[thumb_link] => http://offroadbangladesh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/sukh-sagar-Sazzad1-300x225.jpg
[post_content] => "Sukh Sagar" is a large tank of Dinajpur. The Sukh Sagar is located at the "Rajbatika" area of the Dinajpur town. This is just few minutes distance from the "Dinajpur Rajbari". Once all banks of the water tank was covered with very high hills. Mata Sagar (another tank) is more attractive than the Sukh Sagar, and they never dry at any season.
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[name] => Chalan Beel
[post_id] => 3052
[post_link] => http://offroadbangladesh.com/bn/places/chalan-beel/
[thumb_link] => http://offroadbangladesh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/800px-Chalan_Beel_Natore_Bangladesh_52-300x225.jpg
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Chalan Beel (Bengali: চলনবিল) is a wetland in Bangladesh. It is a large inland depression, marshy in character, with rich flora and fauna. Forty-seven rivers and other waterways flow into the Chalan Beel. As silt builds up in the beel, its size is being reduced.
Chalan Beel is an extensive lowland area in the lower Atrai basin, and spreads across Singra and Gurudaspur upazilas on Natore District, Chatmohar, Bhangura and Faridpur upazilas of Pabna District, and Ullahpara, Raiganj and Tarash upazilas of Sirajganj District. It consists of a series of beels connected to one another by various channels to form a continuous water body during the rainy season. Although the beel area expands into a vast water body with dense aquatic vegetation as long as the Jamuna remains flooded during the monsoon months, it dries out in the winter months, leaving only patches of water in the central parts of this zone.
Chalan Beel is fast silting up. In the past it covered an area of about 1,085 km² but was reduced to 368 km² in 1909, of which only 85 km² remained underwater throughout the year. It has since shrunk to only 26 km².
The most important factor dominating the river history in Bengal is the large proportion of silt carried by its rivers. It is the silt which has created the land and made it habitable by building it up through the centuries. It is silt which is fertilising the land, but the silt, which has been the most beneficial gift of nature, has also produced most of the river problems now confronting the people of Bengal. Silt deposited in the old river channel beds has forced them to change course, creating problems for abandoned areas while assisting in developing new areas.
The main volume of water from the Ganges River began flowing through the Padma channel in the sixteenth century. Silt from the Padma helped in building up the southern portion of north Bengal. This is the most plausible explanation for the existence of a depression around Chalan Beel. The Teesta was active in the region until it changed its course in 1787. This territory lies in between the land raised in the north by the Teesta system when it was active and that in the south by the Padma.
However, there is another explanation for the creation of the depression. The Padma has been changing its course over the centuries. In Ven den Brouck's map of Bengal, prepared in 1660, the main channel of the Padma is shown as flowing through Faridpur-Bakharganj, but there also is a suggestion of another, possibly earlier channel. This channel runs through Rampur Boalia in Rajshahi, Chalan Beel, Dhaleswari and Buriganga before meeting the Meghna. At that time the Jamunawas virtually non-existent and the Brahmaputra used to flow through its old channel.
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[name] => Rampal Dighi
[post_id] => 8867
[post_link] => http://offroadbangladesh.com/bn/places/rampal-dighi/
[thumb_link] => http://offroadbangladesh.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/rampal-21-300x169.jpg
[post_content] => Rampal Dighi is one of the most ancient Dighi(large pond) in Munshiganj District. It is about 1500m long from north to south and 300m wide. Recently built Rampal College stands on its northern bank. Rampal Dighi covers an area of about 55 acres of land.
The Lake of Legend:
Ballal Sen (Bengali: বল্লাল সেন; reign: 1160–1179) was the second ruler of the Sen dynasty of Bengal. He was the son and successor of Vijay Sen, the founder of Sen dynasty. King Bollal Sen was a famous ruler of Sen dynasty in Bikrompur. One day his mother told him that the tenants need a good & suitable source of water for their everyday use. The kind King set arrangement for making a very large pond. Actually his mother was instructed by some Angelic figures in a lucid dream. So,according to her dream she decided to walk a mile. Her walkway will be the area of the pond. After the pond is being dug, there was no water at all. Again according to the instruction of an angelic entity the King decided to sacrifice himself. But at last moment kings friend Rampal took his place. Rampal sacrificed himself and the pond was filled with water instantly. But unfortunately today there is no water in this pond anymore.
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