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The Himalayan's engine was designed and produced by Royal Enfield 'from the ground up' and shares little to no parts with other contemporaries in the company's line-up. [10] The engine, named the LS410 indicating its long-stroke ratio, is a unit-construction 411 cc single-cylinder, oil-cooled 4-stroke SOHC engine.
The Gandaki/Narayani has seven Himalayan tributaries in the center of the country: Daraundi, Seti Gandaki, Madi, Kali, Marsyandi, Budhi, and Trisuli also called Sapta Gandaki. The Kali Gandaki rises on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau and flows through the semi-independent Kingdom of Mustang , then between the 8,000 meter Dhaulagiri and ...
The slaty-headed parakeet (Psittacula himalayana) is the only psittacid species to exhibit altitudinal migration.The species' range extends from Pakistan, to Western Himalayas in India through Nepal and Bhutan and up to the Eastern Himalayas in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.
The Himalayan river systems arise from three major sources–high altitude lakes and springs north of the Himalayas which give rise to rivers like Indus, Brahmaputra, and Satluj, Himalayan glaciers serving as the source for rivers like Ganges, Yamuna, Chenab and Ravi, and the lakes and streams in the lower Himalayas giving rise to non-perennial ...
Makalu [4] (Nepali: मकालु हिमाल, romanized: Makālu himāl; Chinese: 马卡鲁峰; pinyin: Mǎkǎlǔ Fēng) is the fifth-highest mountain on Earth, with a summit at an elevation of 8,485 metres (27,838 ft) AMSL.
The Potala Palace is a dzong fortress in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China.It was the winter palace of the Dalai Lamas from 1649 to 1959, has been a museum since then, and a World Heritage Site since 1994.
The park was founded in 1981 by protecting the Rumbak and Markha catchments, an area of about 600 km 2 (230 sq mi). It grew in 1988 to around 3,350 km 2 (1,290 sq mi), by incorporating neighbouring lands, [2] before increasing in 1990 to 4,400 km 2 (1,700 sq mi), [3] and is the largest national park in South Asia.
Impatiens glandulifera, Himalayan balsam, is a large annual plant native to the Himalayas. [2] Via human introduction it is now present across much of the Northern Hemisphere and is considered an invasive species in many areas. Uprooting or cutting the plants is an effective means of control.