Ringmo is a traditional village in

Dolpo Dolpo ( ) is a high-altitude culturally Tibetan region in the upper part of the Dolpa District of western Nepal, bordered in the north by China.. Part of the region lies in Shey Phoksundo National Park. The sparse, agro-pastoral population, ...

in the

Dolpa District Dolpa District (), is a district, located in Karnali Province of Nepal, It is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal and one of ten district of Karnali. The district, with Dunai as its district headquarters, covers an area of and has a p ...

Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...

, with a seasonal population of about 200. The people are mostly of Tibetan ethnicity, are of the

Bönpo Bon or Bön (), also known as Yungdrung Bon (, ), is the indigenous Tibetan religion which shares many similarities and influences with Tibetan Buddhism.Samuel 2012, pp. 220–221. It initially developed in the tenth and eleventh centuries but ...

faith, and engage in trade, yak herding and tourism. It sits on the

landslide dam A landslide dam or barrier lake is the natural damming of a river by some kind of landslide, such as a debris flow, rock avalanche or volcanic eruption. If the damming landslide is caused by an earthquake, it may also be called a quake lake. Some ...

that formed

Phoksundo Lake Phoksundo Lake is an alpine fresh water oligotrophic lake in Nepal's Shey Phoksundo National Park at an elevation of in the Dolpa District. Phoksundo Lake is in size with a water volume of and a discharge of . In 2004, a survey by the Departm ...

at about 3660 m (12,000 ft) above sea level. A Bön temple also named Ringmo can be found just outside the town, and the river that drains from Phoksundo plunges over an impressive 167 m (548 ft) waterfall about half a kilometer south of the village.Michael Cates Nepal Safeguards Four Sacred Himalayan Lakes
Environment News Service Ringmo is the seat of the

Phoksundo Phoksundo is a village development committee located at the village of Ringmo in the Dolpa District in the Karnali Zone of north-western Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducte ...

village development committee.

Gallery

File:Das Dorf Ringmo.jpg, The village of Ringmo File:Blick auf Ringmo über den Phoksundo-See.jpg, Ringmo seen from Phoksundo Lake File:Bön Gompa in Ringmo.jpg, Bön Gompa of Ringmo File:Im Inneren des Bön Gompa in Ringmo.jpg, Inside the Bön Gompa of Ringmo File:Tanzmasken im Bön Gompa in Ringmo.jpg, Dancing masks at the Bön Gompa of Ringmo

References

Populated places in Dolpa District {{Dolpa-geo-stub