{"id":7056,"date":"2022-11-29T10:17:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T04:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7056"},"modified":"2025-07-16T12:29:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T06:59:32","slug":"harike-wetland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/harike-wetland\/","title":{"rendered":"Harike Wetland"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Harike Wetland:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Harike wetland, spread over 86 square kilometers in Tarn Taran, Ferozepur, and Kapurthala districts<\/strong>, serves as a home to rare species of migratory water birds during the winter season.<\/li>\n<li>Harike Wetland also known as\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Hari-ke-Pattan&#8221;,<\/strong>\u00a0with the Harike Lake in the deeper part of it, is the largest wetland in northern India.<\/li>\n<li>The wetland and the lake were formed by constructing the headworks across the\u00a0<strong>Sutlej river in 1953.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe headworks is located downstream of the\u00a0<strong>confluence of the Beas and Sutlej rivers<\/strong>\u00a0just south of Harike village.<\/li>\n<li>It has been designated as one of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ramsar-sites-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ramsar sites in India<\/strong><\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Apart from the Harike wetland, migratory water birds also arrive at Keshopur Miani wetland, Nangal wetland, Ropar wetland, Kanjli wetland and Beas river wetland in Punjab.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/migratory-birds-from-different-countries-arrive-at-harike-wetland-in-punjab\/article66190791.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harike Wetland, with the Harike Lake in the deeper part of it, is the largest wetland in northern India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","7":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}