Ropar wetland ( Ropar Lake )
India /
Punjab /
Rupnagar /
World
/ India
/ Punjab
/ Rupnagar
World / India / Punjab / Rupnagar
reservoir, wetland
it is wetland across satluj river which attracts migratory birds in winter.
Ropar Wetland, also named Ropar Lake, is a man-made freshwater riverine and lacustrine wetland. The area has at least 9 mammal, 154 bird (migratory and local), 35 fish, 9 arthropod, 11 rotifer, 9 crustacean and 10 protozoan species, making it biologically diverse. This important ecological zone is located in the Shivalik foothills of the Lower Himalayas and was created in 1952 on the Sutlej River, in the Punjab state of India, by building a head regulator to store and divert water for beneficial uses of irrigation, drinking and industrial water supply. The endangered turtle Chitra indica and the threatened snake Python molurus ("at lower risk"), as per IUCN Redlist, are reported to be resident in the wetland. Considering the wetland’s diverse and rich biodiversity, Ramsar Convention has included Ropar Wetland (listed as Ropar Lake) as one of the Ramsar sites among the 21 sites listed under India, for “the conservation of global biological diversity and for sustaining human life through the ecological and hydrological functions they perform.”
The wetland is a popular tourist attraction for bird watching and boating.
Ropar Wetland, also named Ropar Lake, is a man-made freshwater riverine and lacustrine wetland. The area has at least 9 mammal, 154 bird (migratory and local), 35 fish, 9 arthropod, 11 rotifer, 9 crustacean and 10 protozoan species, making it biologically diverse. This important ecological zone is located in the Shivalik foothills of the Lower Himalayas and was created in 1952 on the Sutlej River, in the Punjab state of India, by building a head regulator to store and divert water for beneficial uses of irrigation, drinking and industrial water supply. The endangered turtle Chitra indica and the threatened snake Python molurus ("at lower risk"), as per IUCN Redlist, are reported to be resident in the wetland. Considering the wetland’s diverse and rich biodiversity, Ramsar Convention has included Ropar Wetland (listed as Ropar Lake) as one of the Ramsar sites among the 21 sites listed under India, for “the conservation of global biological diversity and for sustaining human life through the ecological and hydrological functions they perform.”
The wetland is a popular tourist attraction for bird watching and boating.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ropar_Wetland
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 31°0'14"N 76°31'40"E
- Tso Moriri 277 km
- Wular Lake 425 km
- Forest + wetlands 476 km
- Nalsarovar 1012 km
- The Great Rann of Kachchh (Kutch) 1014 km
- Sri Koteshwar Rann 1124 km
- Sri Koteshwar Rann west 1133 km
- Sri Koteshwar Rann 1149 km
- Pachar Creek 1151 km
- Sundarbans 1514 km
- Swaraj Mazda Ltd. Ropar 2.2 km
- Gurudwara Sri Tibbi Sahib (Ropar) 2.2 km
- swaraj 2.4 km
- ITI Ropar 2.9 km
- Giani Zail Singh Nagar 3.2 km
- DCM Engine 3.6 km
- colony 4 km
- Rayat Institute Of Engg. & Information Technology, Rail Majra, Distt. Nawanshahr 4.7 km
- Fly ash deposit area 5.2 km
- Punjab Fibre 5.3 km