Doteng Weighed
| Doteng Weighed | |
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| Basic data | |
| Country | Bhutan |
| District | Paro |
| surface | 193 km² |
| Residents | 1149 (2005) |
| density | 6 inhabitants per km² |
| ISO 3166-2 | BT-11 |
Coordinates: 27 ° 30 ' N , 89 ° 25' E
Doteng ( Dzongkha : རྡོ་ སྟེང་ ) is one of ten Gewogs (blocks) of the Dzongkhag Paro in western Bhutan . Doteng Gewog is in turn divided into five Chiwogs (constituencies). According to the 2005 census, 1149 people live in this weight on an area of 193 km² in 10 villages or hamlets in around 190 households.
The Gewog is located in the northeast of the Paro district, extends over altitudes between 2350 and 3550 m and is 16% covered by forest. Most of the land that can be used for arable farming consists of wetlands , e.g. for rice cultivation, followed by apple orchards.
In addition to the Gewog administration, government institutions have a medical advice center ( Outreach Clinic ) and an office for the development of renewable natural resources ( RNR, Renewable Natural Resource center ). All villages of the Gewog are covered by the mobile network. The schools in the Gewog include two secondary schools, a lower and a higher secondary school .
There are a total of 13 temples in this Gewog, which are state, community or private property.
| Chiwog | Villages or hamlets |
|---|---|
| Phooshar ཕུ་ ཤར་ |
Phooshar |
| Chindued Goenpa | |
| Aatsho Phunoob ཨ་ ཚོ་ _ ཕུ་ ནུབ་ |
Aatsho |
| Phunoob | |
| Chhubar ཆུ་ བར་ |
Chhubar |
| Jabji Loogchhoed བྱག་ སྦྱིས་ _ ལུག་ མཆོད་ |
Jabji |
| Loogchhoed | |
| Joogar Pachhu མཇུག་ སྒར་ _ སྤ་ ཆུ་ |
Joogar |
| Joogar Tselkha | |
| Pachhu |
Web links
- Doteng. Dzongkhag Administration Paro, accessed February 22, 2017 .
- Chiwogs in Paro. (PDF, 8.9 MB) Election Commission, Government of Bhutan , February 19, 2016, accessed on February 15, 2017 .
- Data from the 2005 Census. www.statoids.com, accessed February 17, 2017 (English).