Chukha District
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Chukha District (Dzongkha: ཆུ་ཁ་རྫོང་ཁག།; Wylie: Chu-kha rdzong-khag; officially spelled "Chhukha" <ref> official website of Chhukha Dzongkhag Administration http://www.chhukha.gov.bt/ </ref>) is one of the 20 dzongkhag (districts) comprising Bhutan. The major town is Phuentsholing, the second largest city in Bhutan and its commercial capital. According to the 2017 census of Bhutan, Chhukha has a population of 68,966 people, making it the second most populous district after Thimphu, and the third most densely populated district (population density of 36.7 people per square kilometre) after Thimphu and Samtse districts.
Languages
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
Chukha District is divided into eleven village blocks (or gewogs):<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Bjacho Gewog
- Bongo Gewog
- Chapcha Gewog
- Dala Gewog
- Dungna Gewog
- Geling Gewog
- Getena Gewog
- Logchina Gewog
- Metakha Gewog
- Phuentsholing Gewog
- Sampheling Gewog
Environment
Chukha Dzongkhag covers 1,880 sq. km,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> 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.<ref name=BTF1>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=BTF2>Template:Cite web</ref>
Infrastructure
Chukha contains Bhutan's oldest hydropower plant, Chukha hydel (completed in 1986–88), and Tala Hydroelectricity Project, the country's largest power plant.
Tourism
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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Zangdo Pelri Lhakhang
Zangdo Pelri Lhakhang in Phuentsholing is a small monastery representing the “celestial abode of Guru Rimpoche” located in the heart of the Phuentsholing town. Dasho Aku Tongmi built the Temple in the 1900s.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Kharbandi Monastery
Kharbandi Monastery, also known as Rinchending Goemba, is a monastery in Phuntsholing built by the Royal Grandmother, Ashi Phuntsho Choden in 1967. The Rinchending monastery has become a tourist attraction among Indian tourists in Phuentsholing due to its historical significance and views of the plains of Jaigaon, West Bengal and the Phuentsholing town.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Climate
See also
References
External links
- Official Dzongkhag profilewith a map of gewogs
- Five year plan (2002–2007)
- Travel diary from Phuentsholing
- Urban problems in Phuentsholing From RAO Online