Phewa Lake in Pokhara. Sculling at Phewa Lake is one of the well known vacationer exercises.
Pokhara Lekhnath is home to numerous Gurkha officers. It is the most costly city in the nation, with a typical cost for basic items record of 150,[clarification needed] and the most costly place in Nepal after Namche Bazaar. As far as populace, , and is regularly alluded to as the tourism capital of Nepal
Geography[edit]
Pokhara is in the northwestern corner of the Pokhara Valley,[5] which is a broadening of the Seti Gandaki valley that lies in the midland locale (Pahad) of the Himalayas. In this district the mountains rise extremely quickly,[6] and inside 30 kilometers (19 miles), the rise ascends from 1,000 to 7,500 meters (3,300 to 24,600 feet). Subsequently of this sharp ascent in elevation the range of Pokhara has one of the most noteworthy precipitation rates in the nation (3,350 mm/year or 131 inches/year in the valley to 5600 mm/year or 222 inches/year in Lumle).[7] Even inside the city there is a detectable contrast in precipitation between the south and the north: The northern part at the foothills of the mountains encounters a relatively higher measure of precipitation.
The Seti Gandaki is the principle waterway moving through the city.[8] The Seti Gandaki (White River) and its tributaries have made a few chasms and gulches in and around Pokhara that give intriguingly long segments of porch components to the city and encompassing ranges. These long areas of porches are hindered by chasms that are several meters deep.[9] The Seti pig out goes through Pokhara from north to south and afterward west to east; at spots these crevasses are just a couple meters wide. In the north and south, the gulches are wider.[10]
In the south, the city fringes Phewa Tal (4.4 km2) at a rise of around 827 meters (2,713 feet) above ocean level, while Lumle at 1,740 meters (5,710 feet) in the north touches the base of the Annapurna mountain go. Pokhara, the city of lakes, is the second biggest city of Nepal after Kathmandu. Three 8,000-meter (26,000-foot) tops (Dhaulagiri, Annapurna, Manaslu) can be seen from the city.[11] The Machhapuchhre (Fishtail) with a height of 6,993 meters (22,943 feet) is the nearest to the city.[12]
The permeable underground of the Pokhara valley supports the arrangement of caverns and a few holes can be found inside city limits. In the south of the city, a tributary of the Seti streaming out of the Phewa Lake vanishes at Patale Chhango (पाताले छाँगो, Nepali for Hell's Falls, additionally called Davis Falls, after somebody who as far as anyone knows fell in) into an underground chasm, to return 500 meters (1,600 feet) encourage south.[13][14] To the southeast of Pokhara is the district of Lekhnath, an as of late settled town in the Pokhara valley, home to Begnas Lake.[15]
Climate[edit]
The city has a moist subtropical atmosphere; be that as it may, the height keeps temperatures direct. Temperatures in summer normal in the vicinity of 25 and 33 °C; in winter around - 2 to 15 °C. Pokhara and close-by ranges get a high measure of precipitation. Lumle, 25 miles from Pokhara downtown area, gets the most astounding measure of precipitation (> 5600 mm/year or 222 inches/year) in the country.[16] Snowfall is not seen in the valley, but rather encompassing slopes encounter intermittent snowfall in the winter. Summers are damp and gentle; most precipitation happens amid the storm season (July - September). Winter and spring skies are by and large clear and sunny.[17] The most elevated temperature at any point recorded in Pokhara was 38.5 °C (101.3 °F) on the fourth of May 2013, while the least temperature at any point recorded was 0.5 °C (32.9 °F) on the thirteenth of January 2012 .[18]
[hide]Climate information for Pokhara (1981-2010)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Normal high °C (°F) 19.7
(67.5) 22.2
(72) 26.7
(80.1) 29.8
(85.6) 30.1
(86.2) 30.6
(87.1) 30.0
(86) 30.2
(86.4) 29.3
(84.7) 27.5
(81.5) 24.1
(75.4) 20.7
(69.3) 26.7
(80.1)
Day by day mean °C (°F) 13.4
(56.1) 15.7
(60.3) 19.8
(67.6) 22.8
(73) 24.3
(75.7) 25.8
(78.4) 26.0
(78.8) 26.1
(79) 25.1
(77.2) 22.1
(71.8) 18.0
(64.4) 14.4
(57.9) 21.1
(70)
Normal low °C (°F) 7.1
(44.8) 9.2
(48.6) 12.8
(55) 15.7
(60.3) 18.4
(65.1) 20.9
(69.6) 22.0
(71.6) 22.0
(71.6) 20.8
(69.4) 16.7
(62.1) 11.9
(53.4) 8
(46) 15.5
(59.9)
Normal precipitation mm (inches) 23
(0.91) 35
(1.38) 60
(2.36) 128
(5.04) 359
(14.13) 669
(26.34) 940
(37.01) 866
(34.09) 641
(25.24) 140
(5.51) 18
(0.71) 22
(0.87) 3,901
(153.58)
Source: Sistema de Clasificación Bioclimática Mundial[19]
History[edit]
Phewa lake in 1982
Pokhara lies on a vital old exchanging course amongst China and India. In the seventeenth century it was a piece of the Kingdom of Kaski which was one of the Chaubise Rajya (24 Kingdoms of Nepal, चौबिसे राज्य) led by a branch of the Shah Dynasty. Large portions of the slopes around Pokhara still have medieval vestiges from this time. In 1786 Prithvi Narayan Shah included Pokhara into his kingdom. It had by then turn into an imperative exchanging place on the courses from Kathmandu to Jumla and from India to Tibet.[20]
Pokhara was imagined as a business focus by the King of Kaski in the mid eighteenth century A.D.[21] when Newars of Bhaktapur relocated to Pokhara, after being welcomed by the ruler, and settled close primary business areas, for example, Bindhyabasini sanctuary, Nalakomukh and Bhairab Tole. The greater part of Pokhara, at the time, was to a great extent possessed by Khas[22] (Brahmin, Chhetri, Thakuri and Dalits), the significant groups were situated in Parsyang, Malepatan, Pardi and Harichowk territories of current Pokhara and the Majhi people group close to the Phewa Lake.[23] The foundation of a British enrollment camp brought bigger Magar and Gurung people group to Pokhara.[24] At present the Khas, Gurung (Tamu) and Magar shape the overwhelming group of Pokhara. There is likewise a sizeable Newari populace in the city.[25] A little Muslim people group is situated on eastern edges of Pokhara for the most part called Miya Patan. Batulechaur in the furthest north of Pokhara is home to the Gandharvas or Gaaineys (the tribe of the musicians).[26]
The adjacent slope towns around Pokhara are a blended group of Khas and Gurung.[27] Small Magar people group are likewise present for the most part in the southern remote slopes. Newar people group is nearly non-existent in the towns of distant slopes outside the Pokhara city limits.
From 1959 to 1962 around 300,000 outcasts entered Nepal from neighboring Tibet taking after its addition by China. The vast majority of the Tibetan outcasts then looked for haven in Dharamshala and other Tibetan outcast groups in India. As indicated by UNHCR, since 1989, roughly 2500 Tibetans cross the fringe into Nepal each year,[28] huge numbers of whom land in Pokhara normally as a travel to Tibetan outcast groups in India. Around 50,000 - 60,000 Tibetan outcasts live in Nepal, and roughly 20,000 of the ousted Tibetans live in one of the 12 united camps, 8 in Kathmandu and 4 in and around Pokhara. The four Tibetan settlements in Pokhara are Jampaling, Paljorling, Tashi Ling, and Tashi Palkhel. These camps have advanced into well-fabricated settlements, each with a gompa (Buddhist religious community), chorten and its specific engineering, and Tibetans have turned into an unmistakable minority in the city.[29]
Until the finish of the 1960s the town was just available by foot and it was viewed as much more an enchanted place than Kathmandu. The principal street was finished in 1968 (Siddhartha Highway)[30] after which tourism set in and the city developed rapidly.[31] The region along the Phewa lake, called Lake Side, has formed into one of the significant tourism center points of Nepal.[32]
Sanctuaries and Gumbas[edit]
See additionally: List of Hindu sanctuaries in Nepal
World peace pagoda
Radhakrishna Temple, Bindhyabasini, Pokhara
Bindhyabasini Temple at night
There are various sanctuaries and gumbas in and around pokhara valley. Numerous sanctuaries fill in as consolidated spots of love for Hindus and Buddhists.[33][34] Some of the famous sanctuaries and gumbas are:
Tal Barahi Temple (situated on the island amidst Phewa Lake)
Bindhyabasini Temple
Sitaladevi Temple
Gupteswor Mahadev Gufa/Temple
Mudula Karki Kulayan Mandir
Sunpadeli Temple(Kaseri)
Bhadrakali Temple
Kumari Temple
Akalaa Temple
Kedareshwar Mahadev Mani Temple
Matepani Gumba
World peace pagoda
Akaladevi Temple
Cloister (Hemja)
Nepal Christiya Ramghat Church, set up in 1952 (2009 BS), in Ramghat zone of Pokhara is likewise the primary church in Nepal.[35]
Location[edit]
Machhapuchhre (Fishtail) mountain, (6,993 m) from Sarangkot
The district of Pokhara traverses 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) from north to south and 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) from east to west in any case, not at all like the capital Kathmandu, it is inexactly developed and still has much green space.[36] The valley is around isolated into four to Six sections by the waterways Seti, Bijayapur, Bagadi, Ph
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