Chukha District
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27°0′N 89°30′E / 27.000°N 89.500°E
Chukha district
ཆུ་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག | |
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District | |
 Chukha Dzong | |
 Map of Chukha District in Bhutan | |
| Country | Bhutan |
| Headquarters | Chukha |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,880 km2 (730 sq mi) |
| Population (2017) | |
• Total | 68,966 |
| • Density | 37/km2 (95/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+6 (BTT) |
| HDI (2019) | 0.684[1] medium · 4th |
| Website | www |
Chukha District (Dzongkha: ཆུ་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག་; Wylie: Chu-kha rdzong-khag; officially spelled "Chhukha" [2]) is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan. The major town is Phuentsholing.
Languages
[edit]In Chukha, the main native languages are Dzongkha, the national language, and Nepali, spoken by the Lhotshampa in the south. The Bhutanese Lhokpu language, spoken by the Lhop minority, is also present in the southwest along the border with Samtse District.
Administrative divisions
[edit]Chukha District is divided into eleven village blocks (or gewogs):[3]
Environment
[edit]Chukha Dzongkhag covers 1,880 sq. km,[4] but unlike most other districts, Chukha, along with Samtse, contain no protected areas of Bhutan. Although much of southern Bhutan contained protected areas in the 1960s, park-level environmental protection became untenable.[5][6]
Infrastructure
[edit]Chukha contains Bhutan's oldest hydropower plant, Chukha hydel (completed in 1986–88), and Tala Hydroelectricity Project, the country's largest power plant.
Tourism
[edit]Dokhachu Goenpa
Dokhachu Goenpa, also known as Ekajati Lhakhang, is a Buddhist temple located in Chapcha, Bhutan. It was founded in 1650 by Choeje Thinley Jamtsho. The Monastery houses a revered statue of the wish-granting goddess Ekajati, or Aum Kangchim, believed to fulfill devotees' wishes.[7]
Tumdra Aminey
Tumdra Ami Ney is a chief abode of wish-granting goddess Lhamo Ekajati located in Darla Gewog under Chhukha Dzongkhag in Bhutan. The Ney was discovered by Thangthong Gyalpo, and later Terton Drukdra Dorji meditated and discovered “Ter” of Aum Kangchim Statue from the Ney in the eighteenth century.[8][9]
Geling Goenpa
Thadra Goenpa
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
- ^ official website of Chhukha Dzongkhag Administration http://www.chhukha.gov.bt/
- ^ "Chiwogs in Chukha" (PDF). Election Commission, Government of Bhutan. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
- ^ Wanggchuk, Lily (2017). Facts About Bhutan The land of the Thunder Dragon. Bhutan: Absolute Bhutan Books. p. 290. ISBN 978-99936-760-0-3.
- ^ "Parks of Bhutan". Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation online. Bhutan Trust Fund. Archived from the original on 2011-07-02. Retrieved 2011-03-26.
- ^ "The Organisation". Bhutan Trust Fund for Environmental Conservation online. Bhutan Trust Fund. Archived from the original on 2010-03-29. Retrieved 2011-03-26.
- ^ "Dokhachu Goenpa, a Temple of Wish-granting goddess Ekajati". www.bhutanpilgrimage.com. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ^ "Tumdra Aminey". www.chhukha.gov.bt. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ^ "Tumdra Ami Ney, the Abode of Wish-granting Goddess Ekajati". www.bhutanpilgrimage.com. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
External links
[edit]- Official Dzongkhag profile[permanent dead link]with a map of gewogs
- Five year plan (2002–2007)
- Travel diary from Phuentsholing
- Urban problems in Phuentsholing From RAO Online