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Kaptai Lake

Bangladesh is enriched with extensive potential water resources distributed all over the country. Kaptai Lake is one of the most important freshwater body which is the largest man-made freshwater resource in the South-East Asia as well as in Bangladesh. The Kaptai Lake was created by damming the river Karnaphuli near Kaptai of Rangamati district in 1961. This lake was primarily created for hydro-electrical power generation.

 

Physical Structure:

 

Kaptai Lake has ‘H’ shaped structure and two arms of this lake is joined near Shuvalong which is a part of Karnaphuli river. Total surface area of Kaptai Lake is 68,800 hectare and average water depth is about 9 meters with maximum depth of 30 meters.

 

Place : Rangamati , Bangladesh

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Uploaded on October 1, 2012
Taken on August 21, 2012