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Kaptai Lake Rangamati

January 8, 2022

Kaptai Lake Rangamati-A Place of Natural Beauty

Welcome to our new article about Kaptai Lake Rangamati Bangladesh. Here we discuss all the detailed information about Kaptai Lake Rangamati. If you are a travel lover and want to know about Kaptai Lake, then you are in the right place. In this article, we try to cover every angle like the history of Kaptai Lake, nearest tourist spots, and many more. If you read this article attentively, I hope you will get all the answers about Kaptai Lake. So, stay with us until the end. Now let’s gets started.

Table of Contents

  • About Kaptai Lake
  • Kaptai Lake History
  • Kaptai Dam Bangladesh
  • Kaptai Lake Tourism
  • Rangamati Hotel List
  • Lakeshore Resort Kaptai Price
  • Kaptai Lake Map
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About Kaptai Lake

Kaptai Lake
Kaptai Lake

We know that Kaptai Lake is one of the beautiful places in Bangladesh. It is also a place of natural beauty. Kaptai Lake is one of the largest artificial lakes in South Asia. It is also the largest man-made lake in Bangladesh. Kaptai Lake is situated in Kaptai Upazila which is under the Rangamati District in Chittagong division. Kaptai Lake was made because of building the Kaptai Water Dam on the Karnaphuli River. It is an essential part of the Karnaphuli Hydro-electric project. The maximum depth of Kaptai Lake’s is 150 meters or 490 feet and the average depth is 30 meters or 100 feet.

Kaptai Lake History

The East Pakistan government has started the building the reservoir for the project of Hydro-Electric plant. Thus, fifty-four thousand of acres of land in the Rangamati District went submerged and made the Kaptai Lake. The United States of America was financed for the Hydro-Electric project. The project of Hydro-Electric plant was completed in 1962.   Utah International Inc. and Universal Engineering Company have gotten the agreement for the development of the dam. The Kaptai Dam is about Six hundred and Seventy meters long, and Fifty-five meters high. The Kaptai dam has 227 meters or 745 feet long spillway containing sixteen doors. The spillway passes 5,250,000 cubic ft/s (k49, 000 m3/s) of water.

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Kaptai Lake
Fishing Scenes in Kaptai Lake

The farmland that went submerged because of the dam development was Forty percent of the agricultural land in the zone. Alongside that, 29 square miles of the Government-possessed timberland, and 234 square miles of other woodland arrive went submerged. Around 18,000 families with an aggregate of just about 100 thousand individuals were additionally uprooted. The castle of the lord of the Chakmas was likewise overflowed and is currently submerged.

Kaptai Dam Bangladesh

Kaptai Dam
Kaptai Dam

Kaptai Dam is situated on the Karnaphuli River at Kaptai Upazilla, which is Sixty-Five kilometers upstream from Chittagong in Rangamati District. It’s far an earth-fill embankment dam with a reservoir, which is also called Kaptai Lake are supplies Six thousand Four hundred Seventy-seven million cubic meters water. The number one motive of the dam and reservoir became to generate hydroelectric power. In Kaptai Dam, the power on the inside generators is two hundred thirty megawatts. Karnaphuli Hydroelectric electricity Station was commissioned among Nineteen Sixty-Two and Nineteen Eighty-Eight. Kaptai Dam is one of the simplest Hydro-Electric power stations in Bangladesh.

Kaptai Lake Fisheries

Kaptai Lake Tourism

Hanging Bridge in Rangamati
Hanging Bridge in Rangamati

It is a natural place to do so on both sides of which are small and big many mountains. Its natural beauty attracts nature lovers. Many people rush to see the beauty of Kaptai Lake every year. There is a hanging bridge and Shuvalong falls, these are the main attractions for tourists. There is also the Kaptai hydro-power project. I think the beauty of the Kaptai tourist spot must be fascinated.

Kaptai Lake Photos

Rangamati Hotel List

 There are some excellent hotels to stay in the Rangamati tourism area. Some of the Kaptai lake resort names, address and mobile numbers in Rangamati tourism area are given below-

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1. Hotel Green Castle
Address: Reserve Bazar, Rangamati.
Mobile:  01815459146, 01726511532

2. Hotel Golden Hill
Address: Reserve Bazar, Rangamati.
Phone: 01820304714

3. Hotel Sufia
Address: Fishery Ghat, Kathaltoli, Rangamati.
Phone: 01553409149

4. Hotel Dream Way
Address: Taxi Stand, Reserve Bazar, Rangamati
Phone: 01819868533

5. Hotel Jum Palace
Address: Opposite side of the post office, T& T Area, Rangamati
Phone:  880351-61878, 01625100000 

6. Lakeshore Resort, Kaptai

Address: Jeebtali Army Camp, Kaptaimukh, Chittagong.

Phone: 01859-778065

Lakeshore Resort Kaptai Price

Lakeshore Resort Kaptai room rent are as follows-

  1. Family (4 Adults and 1 Child) – 5520/BDT (Per night).
  2. Couple Bed (2 Adults and 2 Child) – 5520/BDT (Per night).

Kaptai Lake Map

Here is Kaptai Lake Map view

Kaptai Lake Map
Kaptai Lake Map

Our article about Kaptai Lake Rangamati is so far. We think this article is very helpful to you. If you have any questions or queries about this article, please let us know in the comment box below. We will answer your question as early as possible.

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Article by Mustafa Galib / Tourism 1 Comment

About the Author

Hey, this is Mustafa Galib. I have been working as a freelance article writer for several years for various blogs of mine and others. My job is to collect the real updated data about a topic and write about them as perfectly as possible for you. So, I always try to give my best to you.

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  1. Mohammad Belal says

    June 12, 2019 at 9:54 am

    Really Nice Article

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