Tanguar Haor
| Tanguar Haor | |
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| Noykuri Kandar Choykuri Beel | |
 A group of students traveling by boat in Tanguar Haor | |
The breathtaking beauty of Tanguar Haor's tourist area from a bird's-eye view | |
| Location | Sunamganj |
| Type | Haor |
| Basin countries | Bangladesh |
| Designation | Mother of Fisheries Mother of All Haors |
| Water volume | 12,655 hectares (31,271.19 acres) |
| Designations | |
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| Official name | Tanguar Haor |
| Designated | June 10, 2000 |
| Reference no. | 1031[1] |
| Designations | |
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| Official name | Tanguar Haor |
| Designated | 10 June 2000 |
| Reference no. | 1031[2] |
Tanguar Haor (Bengali: টাঙ্গুয়ার হাওর) is a wetland ecosystem located in the Dharmapasha and Tahirpur upazilas of Sunamganj District in Bangladesh. The area of Tanguar Haor including 46 villages within the haor is about 100 square kilometres (39 sq mi) of which 2,802.36 ha2 is wetland. It is the source of livelihood for more than 40,000 people. Bangladesh declared it an Ecologically Critical Area in 1999, considering its critical condition as a result of overexploitation of its natural resources.[3][4]
Every winter the haor is home to about 200 types of migratory birds. In 1999–2000, the government earned 7,073,184 takas as revenue just from fisheries of the haor. There are more than 140 species of freshwater fish in the haor. The more predominant among them are: ayir, Cat fish, baim, tara, gutum, gulsha, tengra, titna, garia, beti, kakia. Gulli, balua, ban tulsi, nalkhagra and other freshwater wetland trees are in this haor.[4]
Plant species like Hizol (Barringtonia acutangula), Clematis cadmia, Crataeva nurvala, Euryale ferox, Nelumbo nucifera, Ottelia alismoides, Oxystelma secamone var. secamone, Pongamia pinnata, Rosa clinophylla, and Typha species are present.
Houseboat
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It has become more popular as a tourist attraction due to the number of houseboats plying at Tanguar Haor.[5] There is a big houseboat in Tanguar Haor. It is a huge, slow-moving barge used for leisure trips. This service is inspired from the houseboat Rabindranath Tagore used during his visit to Shilaidaha. It has been in service from since 2021. It is about 71 feet (22 m) long and about 14 feet (4.3 m) wide at the middle.[6]
See also
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- ^ "Tanguar Haor". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
- ^ "Tanguar Haor". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
- ^ "Tanguar Haor". IUCN Bangladesh. Archived from the original on 2007-11-14. Retrieved 2007-11-23.
- ^ a b Talukdar, Nixon (2012). "Tanguar Haor". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
- ^ "হাওড়ে বিলাসবহুল ও দৃষ্টিনন্দন হাউজবোট - ভ্রমণে নতুন গন্তব্য". BBC Bangla (in Bengali). 31 August 2023. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
- ^ Arpa, Tasnim Kibria; Rabbi, Ahmed Hasam (26 August 2021). "'বজরা- দ্য হাউজবোট': টাঙ্গুয়ার হাওরে বিলাসবহুল নৌকা ভ্রমণ". The Business Standard (in Bengali). Retrieved 1 September 2023.
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