page_title: Aarupokhari
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Aarupokhari / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a picture of the village of Arupokhari, Nepal that I took from my camera.
context_page_description: Arupokhari, also spelled Aarupokhari, is a village development committee in Gorkha District in the Gandaki Zone of northern-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 5,465 and had 898 houses in the town.
  Arupokhari sits on a foothill on top of which there is a Hindu temple. The town's water sources are springs that come out of the ground. There is electricity, but it is intermittent. From the village, one can see Manaslu in the Ganesh range to the north.
context_section_description: The village is adjacent to Satdobato, and it is a 1-2 hour walk from Arughat, which is a slightly larger town in the valley to the southeast.
  The climate in the village is subtropical and the forest is mostly deciduous. The temperature in the village during the summer is usually from 80–89 °F (27–32 °C)  when it is not raining and 70–79 °F (21–26 °C)  when it is raining.  It is always very humid in the summer.  The village was hit hard by the civil war as many of its citizens went to fight.
caption: The village of Arupokhari in the background as seen from the Sarswati Peace School in the foreground
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