Ganges+River

=The Ganges River=

The Gange River stretches form the Himalayan Mountains all the way down to The Bay of Bengal. The Ganges River is made up of lots of different rivers. The Ganges is considered sacred by the Hindu. The Ganges also floods often and leaves silt behind, which is a mixture of tiny rocks and dirt. The silt helped them grow crops like rice, wheat, and sometimes bartley. When the Ganges flooded, they sometimes left people stuck on their house: For instance, if your house was on a small hill and it flooded, your house wouldn't be underwater, but you'd be stuck there unless you could swim.

Facts

 * About 10% of the delta is covered with forests
 * The people lived by the Ganges River for supplies
 * The East India Trading Company ruled over them for a while
 * The Ganges most important river of the Indian subcontinent
 * The Ganges flows 2,510 km (1,560 mi) from the [|Himalayas] of north central [|India] southeast through [|Bangladesh] and into the [|Bay of Benga] [[image:http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:qMpKidrrnZOkOM:http://www.scienceclarified.com/landforms/images/ueol_01_img0034.jpg width="126" height="84" align="right" caption="Ganges river" link="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.scienceclarified.com/landforms/images/ueol_01_img0034.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.scienceclarified.com/landforms/Basins-to-Dunes/Delta.html&usg=__KTzFIAb5xS6lBlsWHow9ZzbkKXc=&h=285&w=426&sz=23&hl=en&start=41&tbnid=qMpKidrrnZOkOM:&tbnh=84&tbnw=126&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dganges%2Briver%26start%3D40%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Dactive%26sa%3DN"]]
 * The Ganges is formed by the junction of two headstreams
 * The main part of the Ganges still goes through Bangladesh