India
Himalayan North
Ladakh

Alchi

Alchi is a village between and in , . It sites beside the Indus River and its main attraction is the fabulous Alchi Gompa or Buddhist monastic complex.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Alchi Monastery and Nimoo Bazgo Hydroelectric Plant.

Buddhist temple
Photo: Drmaliktariq, CC BY-SA 3.0.
or Alchi Gompa is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery, known more as a monastic complex of temples in Alchi village in the Leh District, under the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council of the Union Territory of , India.

Dam
Photo: Mehrajmir13, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Nimoo Bazgo Power Project is a run-of-the-river power project on the situated at Alchi village, 75 kilometres from in the Union Territory of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Suspol, Leh.

Village
Suspol, also spelled Saspol, is a village and eponymous tehsil headquarter in the Leh district of in . Saspol village is home to Saspol Caves. The interior walls of some of these caves are decorated with unique 15th century CE wall paintings.

Alchi

Latitude
34.2236° or 34° 13′ 25″ north
Longitude
77.1741° or 77° 10′ 27″ east
Population
932
Open location code
8J6V65FF+FJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3864346257
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Wiki­data ID
Q2402390
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Urdu—“Alchi” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Alchi”
  • Catalan: “Alchi”
  • Chinese: “Alchi”
  • Czech: “Alči”
  • Dutch: “Alchi”
  • German: “Alchi”
  • Gujarati: “અલ્ચી”
  • Hindi: “अल्ची”
  • Hindi: “आल्ची”
  • Marathi: “अलची”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Alchi”
  • Russian: “Алчи”
  • Spanish: “Alchi”
  • Telugu: “అల్చి”
  • Urdu: “الچی”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Alchi”. Photo: Drmaliktariq, CC BY-SA 3.0.