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The cities of Pokhara and Lekhnath are in the valley. As of 2023, Pokhara has a population of 599,504. It is located in Gandaki zone, 203 km (126 mi) west of Kathmandu Valley. The city of Pokhara is one of the major cities of Nepal and it, like Kathmandu Valley, is extremely vulnerable to earthquakes due to its clay soil and liquefaction potential.
Pokhara, Sarangkot, Kaskikot, Dhikurpokhari. Phewa Lake or Phewa Tal (Nepali: फेवा ताल, [ˈpʰewa tal]) is a freshwater lake in Nepal formerly called Baidam Tal located in the south of the Pokhara Valley that includes Pokhara city and parts of Sarangkot and Kaskikot. [1] It is the second largest lake in Nepal and the largest in ...
Pokhara is in the northwestern corner of the Pokhara Valley, [30] which is a widening of the Seti Gandaki valley that lies in the region (Pahad) of the Himalayas. In this region, the mountains rise very quickly, [ 31 ] and within 30 kilometres (19 miles), the elevation rises from 1,000 to 7,500 metres (3,300 to 24,600 feet).
Installed capacity. 1 MW. Dam site. Phewa Hydropower Station, or Fewa Hydropower Station, is the first hydropower plant in the city of Pokhara, commissioned in 1969 AD. Water from Phewa Lake is directed to this powerplant to produce 1 Megawatt of electricity from 4 generators. [1][2]
The Seti is one of the holiest rivers of Nepal, worshiped in Hinduism as a form of Vishnu.The river is also famous because of its proximity to some holy places and is the central point of many stories of Hindu mythology, such as the Mahabharata, one of the longest books of Hinduism, written by Vyasa, who was born near the confluence of the Gandaki and Madi rivers near Damauli, Tanahun, Nepal.
Pumdikot is a hill station near Pokhara in Kaski District of Gandaki Province in Nepal. The place has a viewpoint at an altitude of 1,500 meters above sea level, and has the second tallest statue of Shiva in Nepal, after Kailashnath Mahadev Statue .
2 February 2016. Reference no. 1695 [1] Lake Cluster is the collective name for nine lakes in the Pokhara valley in western Nepal. The nine lakes which constitute the lake cluster are Phewa, Begnas, Rupa, Khaste, Dipang, Maidi, Gunde, Neurani, Kamalpokhari and Pokhara Seti Catchment. The lakes are fresh water lakes in the Nepalese Himalayas.
Gandaki Province (Nepali: गण्डकी प्रदेश [ɡʌɳɖʌki]) Listen ⓘ), is one of the seven federal provinces established by the current constitution of Nepal which was promulgated on 20 September 2015. [1] Pokhara is the province's capital city. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region in Southwest China to the north ...