The Pasur River is a river in southwestern

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...

and a

distributary A distributary, or a distributary channel, is a stream that branches off and flows away from a main stream channel. Distributaries are a common feature of river deltas. The phenomenon is known as river bifurcation. The opposite of a distributar ...

of the

Ganges The Ganges ( ) (in India: Ganga ( ); in Bangladesh: Padma ( )). "The Ganges Basin, known in India as the Ganga and in Bangladesh as the Padma, is an international river to which India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China are the riparian states." is ...

. It continues the

Rupsa River Rupsa is a village development committee in Kalikot District in the Karnali Zone of north-western Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of Stat ...

. All its distributaries are tidal. It meets the

Shibsa River The Shibsa River is located in western Bangladesh, and is about 100 km long. The river forms much of the boundary between Paikgachha and Dacope upazilas. Inside the Sundarbans Reserve Forest, it meets the Pasur River, then separates again ...

within the

Sundarbans Sundarbans (pronounced ) is a mangrove area in the delta formed by the confluence of the Padma, Brahmaputra and Meghna Rivers in the Bay of Bengal. It spans the area from the Baleswar River in Bangladesh's division of Khulna to the Hooghly R ...

, and near to the sea the river becomes the Kunga River. It is the deepest river in Bangladesh.

References

Rivers of Bangladesh Distributaries of the Ganges Sundarbans Rivers of Khulna Division {{Bangladesh-river-stub