Beni is a municipality and the district headquarters of

Myagdi District Myagdi District ( ne, म्याग्दी जिल्ला ), a part of Gandaki Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district, with Beni as its district headquarters, covers an area of , had a population of 114,447 ...

Dhaulagiri Zone Dhaulagiri ( ne, धौलागिरी अञ्चल ) was one of the fourteen zones which Nepal was divided into for administrative purposes, prior to the September 10, 2015 adoption of a new Constitution, which divided the nation instead ...

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

. Municipality was announced by merging the then Ratnechaur,

Jyamrukot Jyamrukot is a market center in Beni Municipality in Myagdi District in the Dhaulagiri Zone of western-central Nepal. The former village development committee was annexed to form the new municipality on May 18, 2014. At the time of the 1991 Nepa ...

, Arthunge,

Ghatan Ghatan is a market center in Beni Municipality in Myagdi District in the Dhaulagiri Zone of western-central Nepal. The former village development committee was annexed to form the new municipality on 18 May 2014. At the 2011 census, it had 1,137 h ...

Pulachaur Pulachaur is a market center in Beni Municipality in Myagdi District in the Dhaulagiri Zone of western-central Nepal. The former village development committee was annexed to form the new municipality on May 18, 2014. At the time of the 1991 Nepa ...

, Singa village development

committees A committee or commission is a body of one or more persons subordinate to a deliberative assembly. A committee is not itself considered to be a form of assembly. Usually, the assembly sends matters into a committee as a way to explore them more ...

since 18 May 2014. Beni is located at the confluence of the

Kali Gandaki River The Gandaki River, also known as the Narayani and the Gandak, is one of the major rivers in Nepal and a left bank tributary of the Ganges in India. Its total catchment area amounts to , most of it in Nepal. In the Nepal Himalayas, it is notabl ...

and Myagdi River at an altitude of 899 meters. Being the northernmost of the Tri-cities area of Nepal, it is located 12 km to the north of Zonal headquarters

Baglung Baglung is a municipality in western Nepal, west of Kathmandu. It is the administrative headquarters of Baglung District and Dhaulagiri Zone. Baglung serves as the major center for business, finance, education, service and healthcare for the pe ...

. It is mainly divided into two parts by the Kali Gandaki River. The Western Part lies in

and the main offices lie there. The other part lies in

Parbat District Parbat District ( ne, पर्वत जिल्ला , is a hilly area of Nepal. It is a part of Gandaki Province and one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district, with Kusma as its district headquarters, covers an area of and ...

and is relatively small.

History

Beni meaning the place where two rivers meet was the winter headquarters of

Parvat Rajya Parvat was City and a Municipality in Surat district in the Indian state of Gujarat. The town is roughly 8 km from Surat. As in 2006 Eight Municipalities Amalgamated in Surat and Parvat is one of those which was added to Limbayat Zone. ...

. It was on the Tibet-Nepal trading route before the invasion of Parvat Rajya.Location of Beni - Falling Rain Genomics
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Education

Beni municipality has many private, community as well as government schools. Some of them are as follows. *

Beni Community Higher Secondary School is a Japanese R&B singer, who debuted in 2004 under the Avex Trax label. In 2008, Arashiro left Avex Trax and transferred to Universal Music Japan where she started to perform as simply Beni (stylized as BENI). She was initially best known fo ...

* West point College * Beni Boarding Secondary School * Prakash Higher Secondary School, Beni * Little Garden Academy * Shree Ramchandra Secondary School * Mount Everest Secondary School * Shree Galeshwor Higher Secondary School * Dhawalagiri Secondary High School * Shree Arjun Secondary School * Bhanu Higher Secondary School * Shree Paulastya Higher Secondary School * Lokdeep Secondary Boarding School * Rastriya Secondary School * Shree Jayanti Secondary School * Shree Musung Dhole Aadarbhut School * Deep Shikha Higher Secondary School * Jamunakharka Higher Secondary School

Tourist Attraction

Although Beni is small but it is really beautiful. Some of the popular tourist destinations are: * Kaligandaki Rafting * Galeshwor Temple * Lovely Hill * Myagdi River Rafting * Gateway of Mustang

Pictures

File:Beni_Bazaar.jpeg File:Beni_Nepal.jpeg

References

External links

UN map of the municipalities of Myagdi DistrictMunicipalities in Nepal: their Websites, Official Facebook Page & ICT
Populated places in Myagdi District Nepal municipalities established in 2014 Municipalities in Gandaki Province {{Myagdi-geo-stub