The Jamunkhadi Simsar or Jamunkhadi Wetlands is a wetlands conservation project in the

Kankai municipality Kankai Municipality is a municipality in Jhapa District of eastern Nepal. This municipality is formed merging two village development committees i.e. Ghailadubba and Surunga in May 2014. This municipality is one of the developed and biggest munic ...

Jhapa District Jhapa ( ne, झापा जिल्ला; ) is a district of Province No. 1 in eastern Nepal named after a Rajbanshi word "Jhapa" meaning "to cover" (verb). The latest official data, the 2021 Nepal Census, puts the total population of the d ...

, in eastern

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 ...

. It was created to be developed as a tourist destination in Wards 2 and 5 of Surunga VDC (which are now the Dandagau area of Kankai), within the community forest. It lies about a kilometer away from the

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and occupies an area of about 10 hectares of the 25-hectare community forest. Originally, it included two ponds named after the rivers Ganga (Ganges) and Jamuna, but due to lack of protection, Ganga no longer exists and currently only Jamuna remains. Jamuna pond is a tourist attraction. There is boating and fishing on the pond. Wild animals such as the python,

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, sambar, and

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are protected in this area.

Tourism

References

External links

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Tourist attractions in Nepal Jhapa District {{Jhapa-geo-stub