Brahmaputra Valley is a region situated between hill ranges of the eastern and
north-eastern Himalayan range in
Assam. This is an elongated narrow plain which is bounded by the hills in the north, east and south.
Geography of Brahmaputra Valley
The Brahmaputra Valley slopes from the east (130 m) to the west (30 m). The valley consists of the western Brahmaputra valley covering the regions of
Goalpara and
Kamrup; the central Brahmaputra valley region covering
Darrang, Nagaon and the North Bank and Eastern Brahmaputra Valley comprising
districts of
Sonitpur,
Lakhimpur,
Dibrugarh and
Sibsagar. The
Teesta River in North Bengal also drains into
Brahmaputra River. The northern part of this plain lying at the foothills of the Himalayas composed of sands, stones and pebbles and is called Terai Region.
The Brahmaputra Valley with its rainforest-like
climate contains some of the most productive
soils in the world. The Brahmaputra River flows from Assam to
West Bengal where it meets the
River Ganga. This forms the world’s largest delta which finally flows into the
Bay of Bengal in the south.
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