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It is navigable for most of its length and the lower reaches are sacred to Hindus. The river is prone to catastrophic flooding in spring when the Himalayan snows melt.
It originates from Mount Kailash in the Himalayan mountains in western Tibet, in China and flows 2900km into the sea in the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh.
It is called Tsangpo in Tibet, Siang or Dihang in Arunachal Pradesh, Luit or Brahmaputra in Assam, and one of its main branches is called Jamuna in Bangladesh.
Then it Is lost amidst the jungle-covered hills of the wild Mishmi and ~bor tribes to the east of Bhutan for another 100 m., until it is igain found as the Dihong emerging into the plains of Assam.
The bed of the great river maintains a fairly constant position between its extreme banks, but the channels within that bed are so constantly shifting as to require close supervision on the part of the navigation authorities; so much detritus is carried down as, to form a perpetually changing series of obstructions to steamer traffic.
During the rains the Brahmaputra floods hundreds of square miles of country, reaching a height of 30 to 40 ft. above its usual level.
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