Gulmarg
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| Union Territory : | Jammu and Kashmir | ||
| District : | Baramulla | ||
| Location : | 34 ° 4 ′ N , 74 ° 23 ′ E | ||
| Height : | 2700 m | ||
| Residents : | 664 | ||
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Gulmarg is a wide valley and namesake of the place located in it in the Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir in India . The name Gulmarg means "meadow of flowers".
The flat meadow valley, about three kilometers long, lies 52 km west of Srinagar at an altitude of about 2700 m in the Pir Panjal , a mountain range that closes the Kashmir Valley to the southwest.
The place consists of a few buildings that are widely scattered across the valley, primarily small hotels, restaurants, accommodation and mountain huts. There is the Gulmarg Gondola , a 5 km long gondola lift , and two drag lifts near the valley station.
In the population statistics, the place is listed with 664 inhabitants, although only tourists and those employed in tourism are allowed to stay in the valley overnight.
Gulmarg lives from tourism, which is still in its infancy, in the largely undeveloped mountains. Various circular hikes can be made in summer, and in winter there is free skiing on mostly unprepared and unsupervised slopes from the 4200 m high Mount Apharwat . The ski season starts here in mid-December and lasts until mid-May. Since the low pressure areas moving up over the Indus Basin lose their precipitation first over the Pir Panjal chain, snowfalls of up to 20 m per year are not uncommon.
Sports
Gulmarg Winter Games 2020
The first Khelo India Winter Games started on March 7th in Gulmarg in Jammu and Kashmir. Around 900 participants took part in the 5-day event. The games were organized by the Jammu and Kashmir Sports Council in collaboration with the Union's Ministry of Youth and Sports and were held in various sports disciplines in the Gulmarg ski area in Northern Kashmir until March 11th.
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Footnotes
- ↑ All altitude information on Gulmarg varies depending on the source
- ↑ Census of India 2001 ( Memento from June 16, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Other information: 4390 m according to the Gulmarg website
- ↑ Winter Games in Gulmarg from today, players will be screened for Coronavirus. March 7, 2020, accessed March 14, 2020 (American English).