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The source of river Brahmaputra is__

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A trans-boundary river that passes through Tibet, India and Bangladesh is the Brahmaputra river. It is the world's ninth-largest river by discharge and the fifteenth longest.

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 It flows along southern Tibet to split through the Himalayas in broad gorges and into Arunachal Pradesh with its origin in the Manasarovar Lake area near Mount Kailash, located on the northern side of the Himalayas in Burang County of Tibet like the Yarlung Tsangpo River. As the Brahmaputra, it flows southwest through the Assam Valley and south through Bangladesh as the Jamuna. It merges with the Padma, the common name of the Ganges River in Bangladesh, in the vast Ganges Delta, and eventually, after merging with the Padma, it becomes Meghna and flows from here like the Meghna River before emptying into the Bay of Bengal.

The Brahmaputra river, about 4,696 km long, is an important river in the area for irrigation and transport. The river has an average depth of 140 m and a maximum depth of 370 m. When the Himalayan snow melts, the river is vulnerable to catastrophic floods in the spring. It is a classic example of a braided river and is particularly susceptible to avulsion and channel migration. It is also one of the world's few rivers to have a tidal bore. For the majority of its length, it is navigable.

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The river drains the Himalayan east of the Indo-Nepal border, the south-central portion of the Tibetan plateau above the Ganga basin, the south-eastern portion of Tibet, the Patkai-Bum hills, the Meghalaya hills' northern slopes, the Assam plains, and Bangladesh's northern portion. High rainfall levels characterise the basin, especially south of Tibet.