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Keoladeo National Park
Keoladeo National Park is located some 2km (1 ¼ miles ) south of Bharatpur city in Rajasthan state of India. Jaipur , the state capital of Rajasthan is about 175 km (109 miles ) west of Bharatpur.
The park has a history of at least 250 years. Originally this was a low land river basin. In 1726 Suraj Mal, the maharaja of Bharatpur (a princely state at that time ), constructed a bund across the confluence of the two rivers Gambhir and Banganga. The lowland was flooded and turned into a manmade water body. This attracted numerous spices of birds , especially the aquatic birds. Bharatpur happened to be in the natural path of the migratory birds.
