Darchula District (Nepali: दार्चुला जिल्ला Listen, a part of Sudurpashchim Pradesh, is one of the nine districts of province and one of seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district, with Khalanga, Mahakali as its district headquarters, covers an area of 2,322 km2 and has a population of 133,274. Darchula Lies in the west-north corner of the country. Darchula is made of two words "Dar" and "Chula". Dar means edge in Nepali and Chula means fire stove meaning a fire stove made of three stones. All people in this place used to coock on a fire stove made of three stones. There are mountain peaks here which looks like a three stones fire stove; the legend says. Darchula was a part of Doti Kingdom during medival era. Nepal annexed Doti in 1790 and made it part of Doti District until 1885. After 1885 it became part of Baitadi District. Baitadi and Dadeldhura had same "Bada-Hakim" so Those two districts jointly used to call Baitadi-Dadeldhura district; the "Baitadi-Dadeldhura" district named Mahakali District after 1956.

In 1956 four county of Baitadi made a sub-district of Mahakali district. From 1956 to 1962 "Mahakali district" had three sub-districts. Dadeldhura Baitadi ChambaIn 1962, Chamba separately upgraded to a district and named "Darchula District"; the district is surrounded by Bajhang District in the east, Baitadi District in the east and the south, Ngari Prefecture of TAR of China in the North and Pithoragarh district of India in the West. The Himalayan region between two rivers Kali River to Seti River calls Gurans Himal. Darchula district falls in the Gurans Himal zone. Api Himal and Jethi Bahurani are main mountain peaks of the area. There is a protected area named Api Nampa Conservation Area which ranges in elevation from 532 metres to 7,132 metres. Mahakali, Tinkar and Kalagad are the rivers in the area; the climate of the area is characterized by high rainfall and humidity. The climatic condition varies along with the elevation gradient; the climate of Darchula District varies from subtropical to alpine.

In the north, most of the parts, having an alpine climate, remain under snow. In the southern part and valleys the climate is subtropical. Mid- hills have a temperate climate; the average maximum temperature is 18.6 °C and the minimum temperature is 7.7 °C. The average rainfall is 2129mm. Most precipitation falls between September. About eighty percent of the total annual rainfall occurs during the monsoon season. All areas experience high rainfall intensities, ranging between estimates of 125–350 mm for a 24-hour period. Within its elevation range of 1800m to 6500m, there are limited subtropical valleys in the southern margin although most of the area is ecologically temperate or highland. A cold dry climate exists in the high alpine valleys just north of the southern arm of the Himalayan mountain range which cuts across the bottom of Darchula. Mahakali Chalaune Tinkar Nampa Kalagad Darchula District is administered by Darchula District Coordination Committee; the Darchula DCC is elected by Darchula District Assembly.

The head of Darchula DCC is Mr. Karbir Singh Karki and Mr. Krishna Singh Dhami is deputy head of Darchula DCC. Darchula District Administration Office under Ministry of Home Affairs co-operate with Darchula DCC to maintain peace and security in the district; the officer of District Administration office called CDO and current CDO of Darchula DAO is Yadunath Paudel Darchula District Court is a Judicial court to see the cases of people on district level. The district consists of nine municipalities, out of which two are urban municipalities and seven are rural municipalities; these are as follows: Formerly, Darchula had one municipality and many VDCs. VDCs were the local administrative units for villages. Fulfilling the requirement of the new constitution of Nepal 2015, on 10 March 2017 all VDCs were nullified and formed new units after grouping VDCs. Darchula District consists 1 Parliamentary constituency and 2 Provincial constituencies: The number of male 63,609 and female 69,855. Decadal change 9.40, annual growth rate 0.90%, sex ratio 91, absent population 6,867, where number of male 5,880 and female 987.

Total number of house 22,948. Total number of household 25,802. Average household size 5.17. Population density 57 km2; the town has an Indian counterpart to its northwest, named Dharchula. The split between the two towns is just virtual as the traditions and lifestyle of the people living across both the regions are quite similar. More than 56,000 people live in 8,989 households. About 58.4 percent of the population falls below the poverty line. Population composition is made up of different castes, such as Kshatriya 63.55%, Brahmin 17.15%, Thakuri 4.01%, Dalit and others contribute 15.39 percent. Hindu followers are high in numbers. Hindu, Buddhists, as well as others, regard nature as a gift from God and they worship nature their own way; the majority ethnic group is Pahari Arya. Castes of Darchula District are Brahmin, Dalit, Lohar, Newar, Bandhe, Sanyasi etc. Among them 85.19% HHs are Brahmin/Chheties/Thakuri, 10% Dalits, 0.12% Sauka and others are occupational caste groups. Sauka are indigenous inhabitant's caste group.

The indigenous caste. The Dalits and Thakuri share equal proportions and occupy the second largest group in the total population. Indigenous group

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