Gaumul Rural Municipality
Gaumul () is the newly formed rural municipality in Bajura District in the Sudurpashchim Province of Nepal. It was formed in March 2017, when Government of Nepal announced 744 local level units in line with the Constitution of Nepal 2015. It lies to the north west of Martadi. History. It is formed by merging previous 2 VDCs named Dahakot and Manakot along with ward no. 1 of Badimalika Municipality. Gaumul Rural Municipality has an area of and the population of this municipality is 8,515. It is the second biggest rural municipality in terms of area and smallest on  the basis population. It is divided into 6 wards and the headquarter of this newly formed municipality is situated at Manakot. The name of this rural municipality is derived after the place called Gaumul which is the origin place of river Budhi Ganga River. This rural municipality is famous for Potato and "Allo" production. It is also rich for medicinal herbs. Medicinal herbs such as Picrorhiza kurroa or कुटकी, Yarshagumba, Shilajit, Nardostachys jatamansi etc. are found here.