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Bright End Corner, 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from the main city of Almora, is a beauty spot visited at sunrise and sunset. A circuit house, Swami Vivekanand Memorial and Vivekanand Library are also situated here. Binsar Mahadev Temple was built around the 9-10 century A.D. It is believed locally to have been built in a single day.
The Koshi (Kaushiki) and Suyal (Salmale) rivers flow along the city and snow-capped Himalayas can be seen in the background. Almora was founded in 1568. [ 4 ] by King Kalyan Chand ; [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] however, there are accounts of human settlements in the hills and surrounding region in the Hindu epic Mahabharata [ 8 ] (8th and 9th century BCE ...
He is assisted by the officers of the Uttarakhand Forest Service and other Uttarakhand forest officials and Uttarakhand wildlife officials. Sectoral development is looked after by the district head of each development department such as Public works, Health, Education, Agriculture, Animal husbandry, etc. These officers belong to the various ...
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The area adjacent to this mountain range is also known as the Jaurasi range, [1] consisting of the mountains Jaurasi, Gairkhet, Ghaniyal Pokhar, Asurgadhi, Daanu Than, Chaubatia, Garhwal Bunga, Jadapani, Durga Devi, Kaliya Linguna, Nagchulakhal and Phulang. Jaurasi is situated on the boundary of three districts of Uttarakhand: Almora, Chamoli ...
Uttarakhand has a total geographic area of 53,483 km 2, of which 86% is mountainous and 65% is covered by forest. [1] Most of the northern parts of the state are part of Greater Himalaya ranges, covered by the high Himalayan peaks and glaciers, while the lower foothills were densely forested till denuded by the British log merchants and later, after independence, by forest contractors.
The Salt or Sult (Hindi: सल्ट) is a block in Almora district, Uttarakhand, India. [1] [2] It is also known as Kumaun Ki Bardoli, a name given to it by Mahatma Gandhi when he visited Almora in 1929. [citation needed] Khumar is a village located in Salt which has a Martyr Monument. [clarification needed]
Chamoli district is a district of the Uttarakhand state of India. [4] It is bounded by the Tibet region to the north, and by the Uttarakhand districts of Pithoragarh and Bageshwar to the east, Almora to the south, Pauri Garhwal to the southwest, Rudraprayag to the west, and Uttarkashi to the northwest.