Dunga Gali

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Town in Pakistan

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Dunga Gali is one of the towns of the Galyat area of Ayubia National Park, at an altitude of 2500 m in northern Pakistan. Dunga Gali is located in Nathia Gali Union Council (subdivision) of Abbottabad District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. It is 3 km from Nathia Gali Dunga Gali is part of the NA-18, Abbottabad-II constituency. and 34 km from the district capital Abbottabad.

The Himalayan poplar grows in this region along with aesculus indica, Prunus cornuta, and Juglans regia, thousands of tourists trek and hike in Dunga Gali every year. During the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 tourism had stopped but in May 2021 tourists once again returned to the area.

The Haro River originates from the southern slopes of the Dunga Gali range, branching into two main tributaries: the eastern stream, known as Dhund, and the western, called Karral Haro, these two converge and flow into Haripur District. To the south of Dunga Gali lies the Dunga Gali Fault this is a geological fault that forms part of the tectonics of the Himalayan orogeny, where the Indian Plate is colliding with the Eurasian Plate.

History

During British Rule, Dunga Gali served as a sanatorium to British soldiers and contained a hotel, church and a post office. The area was also visited by Europeans, who also had houses on the southern slopes of the nearby Mukeshpuri Mountains. The Dunga Gali range (which is the highlands around the hill station) formed Abbottabad's eastern boundary with the princely state of Kashmir.

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References

References

  1. [https://www.salampakistan.gov.pk/where-to-go/category/dunga-gali/location/dunga-gali Dunga Gali - Salam Pakistan]
  2. "Dunga Gali".
  3. "Distance from Nathia Gali".
  4. [https://ecp.gov.pk/storage/files/3/na-18.pdf Election Commission of Pakistan]
  5. [https://web.archive.org/web/20100124085300/http://abbottabad.gov.pk/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=10 Distance of Abbottabad City from various Cities of Pakistan]
  6. [https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/291526386.pdf SOME FOSSIL LEAVES OF THE SALICACElE FROM NINGAL NULLAH AND LAREDURA, PIR PANJAL, WITH A NOTE ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF TEMPERATE SPECIES IN THE PLEISTOCENE FLORA OF KASHMIR BY G. S. PURI, M.Sc., PH.D. - Page 104]
  7. [https://tourism.gov.pk/publications/Galyat%20Broacher.pdf Galyat Broacher - Pakistan government]
  8. [https://tribune.com.pk/story/2301430/tourists-return-to-galiyat-valleys Tourists return to Galiyat valleys]
  9. [https://kpese.gov.pk/vtwkaf/uploads/2021/01/ESMF-KPHCIP-May-8-2020.pdf KP Human Capital Investment Project page 63]
  10. [https://www.pjhr.org.pk/index.php/pjhr/article/download/28/22/ Geology and Structure of Kuza Gali-Dunga Gali-Ayubia Area, Hazara-Potwar Basin with a Reference to Hydrocarbon Prospects of Attock-Hazara Fold and Thrust Belt. Munir Ghazanfar¹, Mohammad Nawaz Chaudhry¹, Khalid Pervaiz², Mazhar Qayyum³ and Riaz Ahmed 4 - page 11 (51)]
  11. [https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V11_385.gif Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 11, p. 379]
  12. [https://storage.lib.uchicago.edu/pres/2014/pres2014-0779-1911-13-01-02.pdf Census of India 911 Page 5]

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