Harike
Harike
This was the village in Amritsar District in Punjab, Northern India where Guru Angad Dev Ji, the second Sikh Guru was born on March 31, 1504.
Harike, or Hari-ke-Pattan, as it is often called is a road journey of about 40 km from Moga and the nearest railhead is Amritsar (60 km)). It is located on the banks of Wetland which can be viewed from the Gurdwara on the bank of Harike Lake. The Harike wetland is formed by a barrage at the confluence of the rivers Beas and Sutlej in Ferozepur District. The main lake is fringed by marshes, Shisham woods and cultivation. Harike town itself hugs one shore of the wetland lake.
Harike wetland is one of the largest freshwater wetlands in Northern India. This is the Man-made, riverine, lacustrine wetland formed due to construction of barrage in 1952. Located at the confluence of two major rivers of Punjab namely Sutlej and Beas it falls in three districts of Amritsar, Ferozepur and Kapurthala.
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