Stakna
Stakna is a village in the Leh district of Ladakh, India, on the banks of the Indus River. The Stakna Monastery is located there.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: AbhayGarg 17, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Stakna Monastery.
Stakna Monastery
Buddhist temple
Photo: Ronakshah1990, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Stakna Monastery or Stakna Gompa is a Buddhist monastery of the Drugpa sect in Stakna, Leh district, Ladakh, northern India, 21 or 25 kilometres from Leh on the left bank of the Indus River.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thiksey and Shey.
Thiksey
Village
Photo: Kiran Jonnalagadda, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thiksey is a village and the headquarters of its eponymous block in Leh district, Ladakh, India. It is located in the Leh tehsil. The Thikse Monastery is located here. Thiksey is situated 6 km north of Stakna.
Shey
Village
Photo: Kiran L Reddy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Leh is one of the two capitals of Ladakh, a union territory of India. Leh is in the Indus River Valley, at a crossroads of the old trading routes from Xinjiang, Tibet and Kashmir. Shey is situated 9 km northwest of Stakna.
Stakna
- Type: Village
- Description: human settlement in India
- Categories: village in India and locality
- Location: Leh district, Ladakh, Himalayan North, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.00144° or 34° 0′ 5″ northLongitude
77.67944° or 77° 40′ 46″ eastElevation
3,283 metres (10,771 feet)Open location code
8J6V2M2H+HQOpenStreetMap ID
node 342116647OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Marathi—“Stakna” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Stakna”
- Dutch: “Stakna”
- Marathi: “स्टाकना”
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