Harike Lake Harike Wetland also known as 'Hari-ke-Pattan', | IMAWITHLOVE
Harike Lake
Harike Wetland also known as "Hari-ke-Pattan", with the Harike Lake in the deeper part of it, is the largest wetland in northern India in the border of Tarn Taran Sahib district and Ferozepur district of the Punjab
The wetland and the lake were formed by constructing the headworks across the Sutlej river in 1953.
The headworks is located downstream of the confluence of the Beas and Sutlej rivers just south of Harike village.
This man-made, riverine, lacustrine wetland
The wetland was declared a bird sanctuary in 1982 and named as Harike Pattan Bird Sanctuary