Dora Beel is a
wetland
A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally. Flooding results in oxygen-poor ( anoxic) processes taking place, especially ...
and
lake
A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from ...
located at Rampur no. 2 village under the Palashbari revenue circle and surrounded by villages like Rajapukhuri, Nahira, Bhakatpara, Tezpur, Rampur, Majpara, Kuldung, Dhantola, Bortari and Khidirpukhuri in
Kamrup district
Kamrup Rural district, or simply Kamrup district (Pron: ˈkæmˌrəp or ˈkæmˌru:p), is an administrative districts of Assam, district in the state of Assam in India formed by dividing the Undivided Kamrup district, old Kamrup district into t ...
of
Assam
Assam (, , ) is a state in Northeast India, northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra Valley, Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . It is the second largest state in Northeast India, nor ...
.
Area
According to the
Survey of India
The Survey of India is India's central engineering agency in charge of mapping and surveying.[acres
The acre ( ) is a unit of land area used in the British imperial and the United States customary systems. It is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet), which is exactly equal to 10 square chains, ...]
in 1971. However, it had shrunk to 278.41
acres
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according to
land sat imagery in 2005.
Water source
Dora Beel is fed by
Kulsi River and Kulsi also acts as main inlet and outlet for the lake.
Aquafauna
Dora Beel is the habitat of endangered
South Asian river dolphin
South Asian river dolphins are toothed whales in the genus ''Platanista'', which inhabit the waterways of the Indian subcontinent. They were historically considered to be one species (''P. gangetica'') with the Ganges river dolphin and the Indu ...
(''Platanista gangetica''). This endangered dolphin (known as ''Xihu'' in
Assamese language
Assamese () or Asamiya ( ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language. It has long served as a ''lingua franca'' in parts of Northeast India."Axomiya is the major langu ...
) breeds only in
Subansiri River
The Subansiri (Chayul Chu in Tibet) is a trans- Himalayan river and a tributary of the Brahmaputra River that flows through Tibet's Lhuntse County in the Shannan Prefecture in Southwestern China, and the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh and A ...
and
Kulsi River of the entire
Brahmaputra delta.
Festival
Dora Beel festival is an annual festival set on the banks of the Dora Beel to discuss about the production of indigenous fish species and this festival is fundamentally linked to nature and carries the eternal message of protecting and respecting nature.
See also
*
List of lakes of Assam
This is a list of lakes (beels) and wetlands of Assam, India.
Tinsukia district
* Maguri Motapung Beel
* Udaipur Beel
* Rampur Beel
Dibrugarh district
* Lomghori Beel
* Sasoni Merbeel
* Dihingerasuti Beel
Phuloni Beel
Situated in Nakatani Phakum ...
References
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Lakes of Assam
Kamrup district
Wetlands of Assam