beel
Sign in to save220px |right |thumb |A beel near Aloa village, Tangail District, Bangladesh thumb|right|Halti Beel in Natore District right|thumb|Maguri Motapung Beel in [[Tinsukia district of Assam]] A beel (Bengali and Assamese: বিল) is a lake-like wetland with static water as opposed to moving water in rivers and canals - typically called in Bengali, in the Ganges - Brahmaputra flood plains of Bangladesh, and the Indian states of West Bengal and Assam. The term owes its origins to the word of the same pronunciation meaning "pond" and "lake" in the Bengali and Assamese languages.
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- India
- Assam
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220px |right |thumb |A beel near Aloa village, Tangail District, Bangladesh thumb|right|Halti Beel in Natore District right|thumb|Maguri Motapung Beel in [[Tinsukia district of Assam]] A beel (Bengali and Assamese: বিল) is a lake-like wetland with static water as opposed to moving water in rivers and canals - typically called in Bengali, in the Ganges - Brahmaputra flood plains of Bangladesh, and the Indian states of West Bengal and Assam. The term owes its origins to the word of the same pronunciation meaning "pond" and "lake" in the Bengali and Assamese languages.
==Formation== Typically, beels are formed by inundation of low-lying lands during flooding, where some water gets trapped even after flood waters recede back from the flood plains. Beels may also be caused by filling up of low-lying areas during rains, especially during the monsoon season.
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