Kalindi River | |
Subdivision Type1: | Countries |
Subdivision Name1: | India and Bangladesh |
Subdivision Type2: | State |
Subdivision Name2: | West Bengal |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name3: | Satkhira |
Discharge1 Location: | Bay of Bengal |
Kalindi River (Bengali: কালীন্দি নদী) is a tidal estuarine river in and around the Sundarbans in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal, bordering on Satkhira District of Bangladesh.[1]
The Ichamati breaks up into several distributaries below Hingalganj the chief of which are the Raimangal, Bidya, Jhilla, Kalindi and Jamuna. These fan out into wide estuaries in the Sundarbans.[2]