Karnali Pradesh
Mugu
Chhayanath Rara

Rara Lake

Rara Lake, also known as Mahendra Lake, is the largest fresh water lake in the . It is the main feature of Rara National Park, located in Jumla and Mugu Districts of . Rara National Park stretches over 106 km2.
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  • Type: Lake
  • Description: lake in Mugu District, Nepal
  • Also known as: “Rara Daha” and “Rāra See”
  • Address: Hutu VDC, Mugu

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gamgadhi.

Village
Photo: Raju Journalist, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the headquarters of Mugu District in the Karnali Zone of northern . It lies in province 6 of the seven provinces of Nepal.

Rara Lake

Latitude
29.52925° or 29° 31′ 45″ north
Longitude
82.09259° or 82° 5′ 33″ east
Elevation
2,970 metres (9,744 feet)
Open location code
7MX4G3HV+P2
Open­Street­Map ID
way 329747447
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­lake
Geo­Names ID
1282863
Wiki­data ID
Q2120180
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Satellite Map

Discover Rara Lake from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Western Panjabi—“Rara Lake” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “রারা হ্রদ”
  • Bhojpuri: “रारा ताल”
  • Burmese: “ရာရာကန်”
  • Cebuano: “Rāra Daha”
  • Chinese: “拉拉湖”
  • Czech: “Rara”
  • Dotyali: “रारा ताल”
  • Esperanto: “Rara”
  • Finnish: “Rara”
  • Finnish: “Rarajärvi”
  • French: “lac Rara”
  • French: “Lac Rara”
  • Georgian: “რარა”
  • German: “Rarasee”
  • Greek: “Ράρα”
  • Hindi: “रारा ताल”
  • Indonesian: “Danau Rara”
  • Japanese: “ララ湖”
  • Lithuanian: “Rara”
  • Macedonian: “Рара (езеро)”
  • Macedonian: “Рара”
  • Maithili: “रारा ताल”
  • Malayalam: “റാറ തടാകം”
  • Nepali: “Mahandra Tāl”
  • Nepali: “Rārā Daha”
  • Nepali: “रारा ताल”
  • Nepali: “राराताल”
  • Panjabi: “ਰਾਰਾ ਝੀਲ”
  • Polish: “Raradah”
  • Russian: “Рара”
  • Santali: “ᱨᱟᱨᱟ ᱛᱟᱞ”
  • Santali: “ᱨᱟᱨᱟ ᱡᱚᱞᱟ”
  • Spanish: “Lago Rara”
  • Spanish: “Rara”
  • Ukrainian: “Рара”
  • Urdu: “رارا تال”
  • Western Panjabi: “رارا تال”
  • “रारा ताल”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Rara Lake and Army Camp, Rara.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Rara Lake”. Photo: Prajina Khatiwada, CC BY-SA 4.0.