Rewalsar
Rewalsar is a small town on the banks of Lake Rewalsar in Himachal Pradesh. The lake at Rewalsar is believed to be the place where Guru Rinpoche was placed on a burning funeral pyre by the king of Zahor, but instead of being consumed by the flames he transformed the fire into a lake.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Manu moudgil, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 1,370 residents
- Description: town in Mandi district, Himachal Pradesh, India
- Also known as: “Rawālsar”, “Rewalsar, India”, and “Tso Pema”
- Postal code: 175023
Rewalsar
- Categories: human settlement, tourism, historic site, and locality
- Location: Rewalsar, Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
31.6325° or 31° 37′ 57″ northLongitude
76.8333° or 76° 49′ 60″ eastPopulation
1,370Elevation
1,303 metres (4,275 feet)Open location code
8J3RJRJM+X8OpenStreetMap ID
node 1187799389OpenStreetMap feature
historic=yesOpenStreetMap feature
place=townOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=yesGeoNames ID
10732391Wikidata ID
Q2317112
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Western Panjabi—“Rewalsar” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “রাওয়ালসার”
- Bishnupriya: “রাৱালসার”
- Chinese: “Rawalsar”
- Chinese: “拉瓦尔萨尔”
- Chinese: “拉瓦爾薩爾”
- Dutch: “Rawalsar”
- French: “Rewalsar”
- German: “Rewalsar”
- Hindi: “रिवालसर”
- Irish: “Rewalsar”
- Italian: “Rawalsar”
- Malay: “Rawalsar”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Rawalsar”
- Mirandese: “Rawalsar”
- Panjabi: “ਰਿਵਾਲਸਰ”
- Polish: “Rewalsar”
- Portuguese: “Rawalsar”
- Russian: “Ревалсар”
- Spanish: “Rawalsar”
- Vietnamese: “Rawalsar”
- Western Panjabi: “ریوالسر”
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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 “Rewalsar”. Photo: Manu moudgil, CC BY-SA 4.0.