Lamayouro (also known as Lamayuru) is a village in the
Leh district
Leh district is a district in Indian-administered Ladakh in the Kashmir#Dispute, disputed Kashmir-region. The application of the term "administered" to the various regions of Kashmir and a mention of the Kashmir dispute is supported by the WP:T ...
of
Ladakh
Ladakh () is a region administered by India as a union territory and constitutes an eastern portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a Kashmir#Kashmir dispute, dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and India an ...
,
India
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.
The
Lamayuru Monastery
Lamayuru or Yuru Monastery ( "Eternal Monastery") is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Lamayouro, Leh district, Ladakh, India. It is situated on the Srinagar-Leh highway east of the Fotu La at a height of and 19 km southwest of Khalsi.
His ...
is located nearby. It is located in the
Khalsi Khalsi may refer to:
* Khalsi, Dehradun, a settlement in Uttarakhand, India
** Rock edicts of Khalsi, named after the settlement
* Khalsi, Leh, a settlement in Ladakh, India
See also
* Mehdi Khalsi, Moroccan boxer
* Kalsi
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tehsil
A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a Zila (country subdivision), district including the designated populated place that ser ...
. The region is also referred to as ‘Moon Land’, due to its terrain's resemblance to the surface of the Moon.
Demographics
According to the
2011 census of India, Lamayouro has 117 households. The effective literacy rate (i.e. the literacy rate of population excluding children aged 6 and below) is 71.93%.
References
{{Leh district
Villages in Khalsi tehsil