Dhorpatan

Dhorpatan is a municipality in Baglung District of Nepal, set at about 3,900 metres of elevation in an east to west valley south of the Dhaulagiri mountain range in the Himalayas. It is the headquarters of the Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve, and it is home to a small community of indigenous Kham Magar people as well as Tibetan refugees. The valley is drained to the west by the Uttar Ganga, a tributary of the Bheri River, and a 3,400 metre pass on the watershed 18 km to the east gives a historic route between the Karnali basin of western Nepal and the Gandaki River basin. A seasonal airstrip lies 1 km to the west, and the town can be reached from Baglung by bus or jeep. At the 2011 Nepal census the municipality had 26,438 people.