Khunga

Khunga is a village in the Tarakhola country of western Baglung, named by the Nepal Chhantyal Sangh among the district’s Chhantyal settlements. It is one of the six villages — with Taman, Lamela, Khungkhani, Narjakhani and Lukurban — historically governed together under a single Mukhiya, the traditional village chief whose office still endures next door in Taman.

Trace-back

Khunga belongs to the western Baglung hill belt of the Chhantyal, sharing the community’s long history of copper mining and herding on the Dhaulagiri foothills, where livestock still move with the seasons in the chan migration.

At the time of the 1991 census

Khunga recorded 2,926 people in 583 houses, its Chhantyal families part of a wider hill community.

What people do

Life rests on farming the slopes, livestock, and income from family working abroad.

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