Kalpa (Himachal Pradesh)

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Kalpa (Hindi कालपा, Kalpa ) is a town in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It is located in Kinnaur district, 2759 meters above the Satluj valley towards the holy mountain Kinnaur Kailash, was the traditional capital. Significantly, the Hindu, but actually coined by the Pahari Religion Temple of Chini with his unusual sculptures and the weekly executed for questioning his oracle " Devta ".

Previously were called the place and the Chini region. Since Chini at the same time "sugar", but also " China " means in Hindi, the naming of the region after the Chinese invasion in 1961 has been changed: The region is now called Kalpa, district capital of Kinnaur is since then newly formed, 450 meters below Rekong Peo.