mercredi 25 mai 2011

About Ilam District

The headquarter of Ilam district and Mechi Zone has the picaresque location in the eastern region of Nepal. It is situated between 26°40’ to 27°08'
North latitude and 87°40’ to 88°10’ East longitude which extends form east to west lying more or less within the Mahabharata Range . Panchthar is in the North, Jhapa is in the South, West Bangal (India)is in East and Morang with slide touch ( Dhankuta) district in the west. It lies to the south of the Mahabharata range in the lap of the Shinghalila range. Geographically it is a hilly district, with the elevation ranging from 140 meter Sanishare Peltimari(Banjho VCD) to 3636 meters Sandakpur (Mabu and Maimajhuwa VCDs) above from sea level. There are four main rivers(Jogmai, Puwamai, Mai and Deaumai) in the District; so it is called Charkhol (District of four rivers) . Most of them flow from north towards the south. The climate of this district as a whole is dry & cold in winter and hot & rainy in summer.It is rich in its own kind of social and cultural heritages. People here live in peace & harmony irrespective of divrese caste, creed, race, religion and culture. A wide range of ethnic groups with their typical customs, tradition and cultures reside here. These include Lepchas (tribes entitled as native inhabitants of Ilam), Magars, Gurungs, Rais, Limbus, Sherpas, and so on. Some religious and historical tourists area includes Ilam bazaar (Nayranthan , Shigabahini Maithan, Setidevi),Panchakanya, New Pathibhara (also referred as Daughter Pathibhara),Gajurmukhi,Chitre-Gumba, Mahaboudhadham, Haghethame , Therboling-Gumba(monastry) etc. Sandakpur, Jaubari, Chhintapu, Mangmalung, Larumba, Saddithumka, Shri-Antu Maipokhari etc are some other example of tourism areas with beauty ,splendor and also as adventurous trekking spots . These places attractions are its beautiful panoramic and scenarioc glittering mountains, high landscapes, sunrise & sunset, research destinations for geographical, biological, botanical,anthropological subjects due to its diverse flora and fauna and many more. According to the recent studies , it is seen that it is a place of rich Bio-diversity ,Geographic-diversity , climatic-diversity and natural vegetation-diversity all varying widely from astonishingly minimum value to extra-ordinarily high value of all within very close premises. so it has become an ideal area for research personnel.
Ilam district is divided into 48 Village Development Committee and one municipality. Most part comprises of hilly regions with farmers as the main inhabitants along with businessmen, officials and government employees. People here treat their guest as gods & show their extreme hospitality. They owe higher degree of physical development, human development and literacy rate in comparision to other hilly district of Nepal . As a whole, Ilam is also referred to as the “Queen of the hills” . It is a beautiful place enriched with green healthy environment equipped with fundamental requirements promoting toruism. Ilam is one of the richest district of Nepal in terms of its bio-cultural diversity, natural
landscape and flourishing professionalism in agricultural especially in rich cash crop sector. Ilam is the most famous District of Nepal for tea production. It is widely famous for major six cash croup all initiating from the same vowel sound /a/ in Nepali, so it is also known as the district
of ‘6 As’.Potato, Cardamom, ginger, Red round chilly, Milk - and Broom grass - are the major cash crops which are known as Aalu, Alaichai, Akbare Khursani, Olan, Amliso respectively in tribal Nepali language.
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