The Jamuna River

The Jamuna river is one of the three main rivers of Bangladesh.The old name of this river was Jonai.The main distributary channel of the Brahmanputra river is the Jamuna river.The Brahmaputra -Jamuna is a classic example of a braided river and is highly susceptible to channel migration and avulsion.It flows out of India into Bangladesh.The jamuna river flows south and joins the padma river near Goalundo Ghat and it meets with the Meghna river near Chandpur.The mean depth of the Jamuna river is 120m and maximum depth of the river is 332m.Within the area of Bangladesh ,the length of Brahmanputra-Jamuna is 275km,of which the length of Jamuna is 205km.The width of the river changes from 3km to 18km.The Jamuna was a barrier in establishing  a direct road link between capital Dhaka and northern part of Bangladesh better known as Rajshahi division until 1996.This was mitigated by the completion of the Jamuna Multi-purpose Bridge.