The largest river in Manipur

What is the largest river in Manipur?

The Barak River is the largest, therefore, the most important of all rivers of Manipur state in addition as of northeast India and is part of the Surma-Meghna River System in Bangladesh. The Barack River rises from Liyai Khullen Village in Senapati district of Manipur State, of the Poumai Naga tribe, the river is understood as Avourei. 

Close to its source, the largest river of Manipur receives plenty of streams, they are:

1. Balujhuri, 
2. Durduria, 
3. Gumti, 
4. Hari Mangal, 
5. Howrah, Kagni, 
6. Kakrai, Kurulia, 
7. Senai Buri and 
8. Shonaichhari. 

It flows west through Manipur State, then flows southwest leaving Manipur and entering Nagaland State ending after 3000 km.

Important features of Barak River of Manipur

• Barak River is one of the major rivers of South Assam.
• The 564 kilometers long river is part of the Surma-Meghna River System.
• It rises in the hill country of Manipur where it is the biggest and most important of hills Country Rivers.
• After Manipur, it flows through Mizoram and Assam.
• It later enters Bangladesh where it forks into Surma and Kushiyara rivers.
• The sixth national waterway stretch is on this river.

In Nagaland State, the Barak River flows southeast then veers shortly south once joined by a south-flowing stream and flows into Manipur State once more wherever it turns westward once more close to Chandel district at Delta Avourei before departure into the Indian Ocean (Bay of Bengal). 

Barak is among the richest rivers within the world in terms of aquatic variety, because it contains over 2000 species fishes as well as noble gas characid. 

Different creatures embody river Ovurei crocodilian, (a rare and vulnerable crocodilian), black mubber and an alligator. The principal tributaries of the Barak are all in India country and are the Dhaleshwari (Tlawng), the Jiri, the Longai, the Madhura, the Rukni, the Sonai (Tuirial) and the Katakhal.

A Tipaimuk Dam is on the process on a Hydroelectric project is going to be built on Barak River in Manipur state which is just 100km  away from the Bangladesh border. From its origin, right down to its junction at the border of Nagaland state the Barak River is 564km (1864 mi) long.

The biomes are very rich in wildlife and additionally terribly numerous within the entire stretch of the Barack River including:

1. Vast Tropical swamps.
2. Varzea forest (flooded rainforest) 
3. Los llama (flooded grassland and Savannah) 
4. Periodic event forest (Mangroves in Brobdingnag a Delta Avourei) 
5. Flora or vegetation of the Tepuis (the flat-topped Table Mountains in a Manipur state and eastern Meghalaya state).