Baral River

Baral (Borhal Bengali: বড়াল) river, one of the offshoots of the Ganges, starts its journey at Charghat Upazila of Rajshahi District of Bangladesh.

Some important places located on the banks of the Baral are: Charghat, Baraigram, Bagatipara, Gurudaspur, Chatmohar, Bhangura and Bera upazilas of Bangladesh.

[1] Eighteenth-century geographer James Rennell referred to a former course of the Ganges north of its present channel, as follows: "Appearances favour very strongly that the Ganges had its former bed in the tract now occupied by the lakes and morasses between Natore and Jaffiergunge, striking out of the present course by Bauleah to a junction of Burrrampooter or Megna near Fringybazar, where accumulation of two such mighty streams probably scooped out the present amazing bed of the Megna."

The place last named were shown in a map of the Mymensingh district dated 1861, as a subdistrict (thana) headquarters, about 10 kilometres (6 mi) south-east of Bera Upazila police station.

According to Rennell's theory, therefore, the probable former course of the Ganges would correspond with that of the present channel of the Baral River.