Shivalaya (शिवालय) is a place and older name of
Kushma Municipality in
Parbat District in the
Dhawalagiri Zone
Dhaulagiri ( ) 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 into 7 provinces. It is in the Western Devel ...
of central
Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...
. At the time of the
1991 Nepal census
The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics.
Working with Nepal's Village Development Committees at a district level,
they recorded data from all the main towns and villages of each ...
, it had a population of 5234 people living in 1076 individual households.
[.]
Shivalaya VDC consist the headquarters of Parbat district;
Kushma which is even known as Kusumpuri. It is easy to access to two giant rivers
Kaligandaki which is famous for river rafting and Madi Khola which has potentiality of hydro electricity. It has even very famous cave which is virgin to the many tourists of the world "Gupteshwor cave; that is really amazing to the visitors and it has longest distance ever to other caves of Nepal. It takes about two complete hours to visit and come out. Recently the longest and at the height point a suspensional bridge is made which has attracted many tourists.
References
External links
UN map of the municipalities of Parbat District
Populated places in Parbat District
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