{"id":374240,"date":"2026-10-22T15:32:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=374240"},"modified":"2026-10-22T15:32:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:02:50","slug":"barak-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/barak-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Barak River"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Two Bangladeshi nationals were arrested after allegedly jumping into the Barak River to evade police during an operation in Assam\u2019s Cachar district, raising border security concerns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\">About Barak River<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_374241\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-374241\" style=\"width: 359px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-374241\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Location-of-Barak-River-and-Silchar-town.webp?resize=359%2C410&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Barak River\" width=\"359\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Location-of-Barak-River-and-Silchar-town.webp?resize=263%2C300&amp;ssl=1 263w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Location-of-Barak-River-and-Silchar-town.webp?resize=768%2C876&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Location-of-Barak-River-and-Silchar-town.webp?w=795&amp;ssl=1 795w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 359px) 100vw, 359px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-374241\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Research Gate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <strong>Barak River<\/strong> is a major <strong>trans-boundary <\/strong>river in<strong> Northeast India and Bangladesh.\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the<strong> second largest river system<\/strong> in the <strong>North-Eastern region of India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Origin:<\/strong> It<strong> rises in the Manipur Hills<\/strong>, south of Mao in <strong>Senapati district, Manipur.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Course of the river:<\/strong>\u00a0It flows through the<strong> hills of Manipur, along parts of the Manipur\u2013Nagaland and Manipur\u2013Mizoram boundaries<\/strong>, and <strong>across Assam before entering Bangladesh.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>There, it <strong>splits into the Surma and Kushiyara rivers,<\/strong> which merge into the <strong>Meghna River system and eventually drain into the Bay of Bengal.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>States covered:<\/strong> In India, its basin is spreads over <strong>states of Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Assam, Tripura and Nagaland.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is bounded by the <strong>Barail range separating it from the Brahmaputra basin on the north<\/strong>, by the<strong> Naga and Lushai hills on the east<\/strong> and by<strong> Mizo Hills <\/strong>and territory of <strong>Bangladesh <\/strong>on the south and west.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Assam, the<strong> Barak Valley <\/strong>is <strong>named <\/strong>after the Barak River.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Tributaries:<\/strong> The key tributaries of the Barak River are<strong> Jiri, Chiri, Modhura, Jatinga, Harang, Kalain, Gumra, Dhaleswari, Singla, Longai, Sonai, and Katakhal.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Length:<\/strong> \u00a0The total length of the Barak River in India is <strong>564 km<\/strong> and <strong>121-km stretch<\/strong> of the river between <strong>Lakhipur and Bhanga in Assam<\/strong> was declared as <strong>National Waterway 16 <\/strong>by the Government of India.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Dams situated on river:<\/strong> There are <strong>four major dams<\/strong> situated on river and its basin namely <strong>Khoupum Dam, Mawphlang Dam, Gumti Hydro Dam and Myntdu-Leshka Dam.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Two Bangladeshi nationals were arrested after allegedly jumping into the Barak River to evade police during an operation in Assam\u2019s Cachar district, raising border security concerns. About Barak River The Barak River is a major trans-boundary river in Northeast India and Bangladesh.\u00a0 It is the second largest river system in the North-Eastern region of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/barak-river\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Barak River<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209,12039],"tags":[11872,11170],"class_list":["post-374240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-india-today","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}