Kalindi River

Kalindi River (Bengali: কালীন্দি নদী) is a tidal estuarine river in and around the Sundarbans in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal, bordering on Satkhira District of Bangladesh.[1]

Kalindi River
Location
CountryIndia, Bangladesh
StateWest Bengal
DistrictSatkhira
Physical characteristics
Discharge 
  locationBay of Bengal

The Ichamati breaks up into several distributaries below Hingalganj the chief of which are the Raimangal, Bidya, Jhilla, Kalindi and Jamuna. These fan out into wide estuaries in the Sundarbans.[2]

References

  1. Amirul Ashraf (2012). "Satkhira District". In Sirajul Islam and Ahmed A. Jamal (ed.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
  2. The Sundarbans of India: a development analysis By Asim Kumar Mandal. Retrieved 18 November 2009.


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