Matatirtha
Matatirtha is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Chandragiri Municipality in Kathmandu District in Province No.
Matatirtha is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Chandragiri Municipality in Kathmandu District in Province No. 3 of central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 2,799 living in 506 households. Its population has now grown to 5,982 spread over 1,314 households. Santosh Khadka was elected as Ward Chairman of Matatirtha through a local election.
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Worth seeing in and around Matatirtha
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Chandragiri Hill
Chandragiri Hill is a hill in Nepal on the south-west side of the Kathmandu Valley. Its peak is 2551 metres above sea level.
2.7 km · mountain on the south-west side of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal · Wikipedia - 02Bhaleshwor Mahadev Temple
Bhaleshwor Mahadev is a Hindu temple located in Chandragiri hill in south-west side of Kathmandu Valley. It is dedicated to Lord Shiva.
2.8 km · Hindu temple in Nepal · Wikipedia - 03Matatirtha Temple
Matatirtha Temple is a Hindu temple in Matatirtha, Chandragiri Municipality, Nepal. The temple is famous for the Matatirtha Aunsi festival, a day to honour mothers and motherhood.
1.5 km · Hindu temple in Nepal · Wikipedia
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Getting to Matatirtha
- Airports
- Tribhuvan (KTM), 13 km · Pokhara (PHH), 133 km · Gautam Buddha (BWA), 181 km
- Pokhara → Matatirtha141 km · quickest by road, 3h 39m · ₨710–950
- Siddharthanagar (Bhairahawa) → Matatirtha177 km · quickest by road, 4h 45m · ₨920–1,220
- Siliguri → Matatirtha333 km · quickest by road, 7h 35m · ₹3,240–4,050
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No local-transport research exists yet for Matatirtha
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Matatirtha. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextVisit Kathmandu, perhaps as a day trip from the relative quiet of Kirtipur.
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Next door to Matatirtha
Matatirtha is 9 km from Kathmandu, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Machhegaunhuman settlement in Nepal1.9 km
- Chandragiri Municipalitymunicipality in Kathmandu District, Nepal2.5 km
- Satungalhuman settlement in Nepal2.2 km
- Balambuvillage in Nepal3.2 km
- Mahadevsthan, Kathmanduhuman settlement in Nepal3.7 km