Kanjli Wetland

Kanjli Wetland lies at Kanjli village, about 4 km from Kapurthala town, in the Beas river basin upstream of Harike. The 490-hectare site was created by people: in 1870 headworks were built across the Kali Bein, a tributary of the Beas, to store water for irrigating nearby farmland. It has been a Ramsar site of international importance since 2002.

At the centre of the wetland is Kanjli Lake, which covers around 184 hectares and is ringed by trees, shrubs and aquatic plants. Mammals, reptiles and fish live here, but birds are the main draw: some 50 migratory species arrive in winter, among them shovellers, mallards and geese. Visitors walk the trails along the shore, take boat rides on the lake, fish, and photograph the water at sunrise and sunset.