Beni is a municipality and the district headquarters of

Myagdi District Myagdi District ( ), 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 in 2001 and 113,641 in 2011. Magar people e ...

Gandaki Province Gandaki Province ( ) ), is one of the seven federal provinces established by the current constitution of Nepal which was promulgated on 20 September 2015. Pokhara is the province's capital city. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region in Southw ...

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. 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 Nepal ...

, Arthunge, Pulachaur, Singa village development

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since 18 May 2014. Beni is located at the confluence of the Kali Gandaki River 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 Municipalities of Nepal, municipality in Gandaki Province, in western Nepal, west of Kathmandu. It is the administrative headquarters of Baglung District. Baglung serves as the major center for business, finance, education, servic ...

. 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 and is relatively small.

Demographics

At the time of the

2011 Nepal census Nepal conducted a widespread national census in 2011 by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics. Working in cooperation with the 58 municipalities and the 3,915 Village Development Committees at a district level, they recorded data from all the m ...

, Beni Municipality had a population of 34,878. Of these, 92.9% spoke Nepali, 2.8% Magar, 1.9%

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, 0.7% Chantyal, 0.3%

Bhojpuri Bhojpuri may refer to: * Bhojpuri language, an Indo-Aryan language of India and Nepal * Bhojpuri grammar, grammatical rules of the language * Bhojpuri nouns, nouns of the language * Bhojpuri people, people who speak the language * Bhojpuri region ...

, 0.2%

Gurung Gurung (exonym; ) or Tamu (endonym; Gurung language, Gurung: ) are a Tibetan people, Tibetan ethnic group living in the hills and mountains of Gandaki Province of Nepal. Gurungs speak Tamu kyi which is a Sino-Tibetan language derived from the ...

, 0.2%

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, 0.2% Maithili, 0.2% Thakali, 0.1%

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, 0.1%

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, 0.1% Tamang and 0.1% other languages as their first language. In terms of ethnicity/caste, 29.0% were

Chhetri Chhetri (Kshetri, Kshettri, Kshetry or Chhettri), ( ; IAST: ''Kṣetrī'') historically called Kshettriya or Kshetriya or Khas are Nepali language, Nepali speaking people historically associated with the warrior class and administration, some of ...

, 21.7% Magar, 13.3% Hill Brahmin, 8.1%

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/Dholi, 8.0%

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, 6.3% Sarki, 3.8%

, 2.6%

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, 2.2% Chhantyal, 1.1%

, 1.0% Thakali, 0.6%

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, 0.4%

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, 0.4% Sanyasi/Dasnami, 0.2%

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, 0.2% Tamang, 0.1% Badi, 0.1% Halwai, 0.1% Koiri/

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, 0.1%

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, 0.1% other Terai, 0.1% Tharu and 0.4% others. In terms of religion, 92.2% were

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, 6.2%

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, 1.0%

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, 0.4%

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and 0.1% others. In terms of literacy, 77.2% could read and write, 2.3% could only read and 20.4% could neither read nor write.

History

Beni meaning the place where two rivers meet was the winter headquarters of Parvat Rajya. 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 * West point Higher Secondary School * 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 * Galeshwor Adarsha Secondary Boarding 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 * Beldhunga * Todke View Point * Singa Tatopani

Pictures

File:Beni_Bazaar.jpeg File:Beni_Nepal.jpeg File:Viewing north from Galeshwor temple - panoramio.jpg, Upstream of Galeshwor temple File:Lord Bishnu in Galeshwor temple - panoramio.jpg, Lord Vishnu in Galeshwor temple

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