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Types of Water Bodies in Bangladesh

An oxbow lake is an abandoned river meander that has been isolated from the main channel by deposition and filled with water. A beel is a small, low-lying floodplain depression that sometimes dries up seasonally, while a haor is a larger seasonal floodplain depression that can contain smaller beels as water levels drop. A polder is a low-lying reclaimed area protected by dikes that has been drained for agricultural and human settlement, with Bangladesh containing 123 total polders including 59 along the coast.

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Types of Water Bodies in Bangladesh

An oxbow lake is an abandoned river meander that has been isolated from the main channel by deposition and filled with water. A beel is a small, low-lying floodplain depression that sometimes dries up seasonally, while a haor is a larger seasonal floodplain depression that can contain smaller beels as water levels drop. A polder is a low-lying reclaimed area protected by dikes that has been drained for agricultural and human settlement, with Bangladesh containing 123 total polders including 59 along the coast.

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Baor:

Oxbow lake.
An abandoned meander isolated from the main stream channel by deposition, and
filled with water.

Beel: Low lying depression on a floodplain, sometimes drying up in the dry season
Small compared to Haur

Haor: Low lying depression on a floodplain, part of which dries during the dry
season. Individual beels may be found as water level drops
Large compared to Beel

Polder:

Area of low-lying land reclaimed from inundation by building of dikes


An area of low-lying land that has been reclaimed from a body of water and is
protected by dikes/embankment
Total Polder in Bangladesh: 123
Sea facing polder: 59

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