Khamdang Gewog
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Khamdang Gewog, Bhutan ཁམས་དྭངས་ |
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 Khamdang Gewog, Bhutan
Location in Bhutan
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| Coordinates: 27°29′N 91°34′E / 27.483°N 91.567°ECoordinates: 27°29′N 91°34′E / 27.483°N 91.567°E | |
| Country |
 Bhutan
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| District | Trashi Yangtse District |
| Government | |
| • Type | Democratic Constitutional Monarchy |
| • King | Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuk |
| • Dzongdag | Dasho Thuji Tshering |
| • Gup | Norbu |
| • Tshogpa | Rinchen Wangdi |
| Area | |
| • Urban | 18 sq mi (45 km2) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Linear; scattered; clustered | 4,000 |
| • Density | 210/sq mi (82/km2) |
| Time zone | BTT (UTC+6) |
| Area code(s) | 04 |
| Website | http://www.trashiyangtse.gov.bt/gewogDetail.php?id=6 |
Khamdang Gewog (Dzongkha: ཁམས་དྭངས་) is a gewog (village block) of Trashiyangtse District, Bhutan.
Khamdang Gewog consists of 18 villages with 617 households, covering an area of 44.5 square km with the population of 4320. The gewog is very dry mainly due to less forest coverage. Since it is in a dry zone, the most dominant land use categories in the gewog are dry land and Pangshing followed by the wetland and some Tseri cultivation. The major crops grown are maize, wheat, buckwheat and potato. While rice are grown on the lower areas and terraced fields developed in the 1970s.
The ruins with Khamdang villages depicts and reveals the fact about early inhabitants there. Near Shali in a small village called Denglum there is remains of ruins of Denglum Tshering Samdrup; a well known man during eighth century AD. The ruins of Khamdang Lekey Samdrup in main village of Khamdang; and the ruins of Wombu Karma samdrup used to be early inhabitants of Khamdang village. The notable history also lies in the old ruined fortress of Lhasey Tshangma at Tsenkharla Right near the present day Tsenkharla Middle Secondary School, school. Historically until the arrival of great Tibetan Buddhist masters; people inhabiting the area were practicing Bon faith like many parts of Bhutan did.
While the Gewog confronts to all 4 seasonal change; the Northern part can be extremely cold during winter and have favorable climate during summer seasons. The Southern part can have a hot a humid climate during summer as in Manla; with temperature as high as 30 degrees Celsius with winter temperature ranging from 15 to 20 degrees Celsius. The middle Khamdang experiences warmer summer and cooler winter. This variation in climatic conditions led people to cultivate in Southern part during winter; and Northern part during summer.
The population of the gewog counts to 4320 with a density of 82 per km². The constituent people residing in Khamdang has varied originality. The Sharchokp speaking people in the middle and main Khamdang has their origins rooted to nearby Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. The Kurtoep speaking people, constituting North-West Khamdang probably have been migrated during feudal era from Mongar/Zhongar. There constitute also a group of people speaking local dialects called Zalakha who were originally migrated from the Tawang, a small town in Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.
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