Tsento Weighed
| Tsento Weighed | |
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| Basic data | |
| Country | Bhutan |
| District | Paro |
| surface | 598 km² |
| Residents | 5253 (2005) |
| density | 8.8 inhabitants per km² |
| ISO 3166-2 | BT-11 |
Coordinates: 27 ° 26 ' N , 89 ° 25' E
Tsento ( Dzongkha : བཙན་ ཏོ་ ) is one of ten Gewogs (blocks) of the Dzongkhag Paro in western Bhutan . Tsento Gewog is in turn divided into five Chiwogs (constituencies). According to the 2005 census, 5253 people live in this weight on an area of 598 km², who live in 18 (according to the census of the electoral commission 20) villages or hamlets in around 905 households.
The Gewog Tsento extends over altitudes between 2000 and 5210 m and is located in the north of the Paro district. The Dzongkhag Administration states an area of 575 km² on its website. Tsento is the largest area in the Paro district. 44% of it is covered with forest.
In addition to the Gewog administration, state institutions have three medical advice centers ( Outreach Clinics ) and an office for the development of renewable natural resources ( RNR, Renewable Natural Resource Center ), 16 villages are covered by the mobile network. The schools in the Gewog include two elementary schools and two secondary schools, a lower secondary school and a higher secondary school .
The population of Tsento earned their livelihood mainly from agriculture and animal husbandry. Rice and wheat are predominantly grown on irrigated fields, while apples are primarily grown in dry farming. Yaks and native cattle dominate the livestock.
There are a total of 18 Buddhist temples ( Lhakhangs ) in this Gewog , which are state, community or private property.
| Chiwog | Villages or hamlets |
|---|---|
| Soe Yagsa སྲོལ་ _ གཡག་ ས་ |
Soe Domzag |
| Soe Yagsa | |
| Yagsa | |
| Mitshig Shana མི་ ཚིག་ _ ཤ་ ན་ |
Shana |
| Chuyul | |
| Lemdo | |
| Mitshig | |
| Chhungjey Zamsar ཆུང་ རྗེས་ _ ཟམ་ སར་ |
Chhungjey |
| Zamsar | |
| Lemgoen | |
| Nyamjey Phangdo ཉམས་ རྗེས་ _ འཕང་ དོག་ |
Chhoeding |
| Nyamjey | |
| Phangdo | |
| Jiutsaphu | |
| Tshenshi | |
| Nyechhu Shar-ri ཉེས་ ཆུ་ _ ཤར་ རི་ |
Nyechhu |
| Shar-ri (Tsento) | |
| Tagtshang | |
| Tsatsam | |
| Nyamed |
Web links
- Tsento. Dzongkhag Administration Paro, accessed February 20, 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).