Jispa is a village in Lahaul and Spiti district, Himachal Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh is a state in Northern India. It is spread over , and is bordered by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir on the north, Punjab on the west and south-west, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on the south, Uttarakhand on the south-east and by the Tibet Autonomous Region on the east...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. It is located 20 km north of Keylong

Keylong

Keylong is the administrative centre of the Lahaul and Spiti district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, some 120 kilometres from the Indo-Tibetan border....

 and 7 km south of Darcha

Darcha

Darcha is village on the Bhaga River in Lahaul, Himachal Pradesh, India. It is the northernmost permanent settlement in Himachal Pradesh along the Manali-Leh Highway. The Rough Guide to India describes it as "a lonely cluster of dry-stone huts and dingy tent camps".The village has 65 households...

, along the Manali-Leh Highway and the Bhaga River. There are no other villages between Jispa and Keylong

Keylong

Keylong is the administrative centre of the Lahaul and Spiti district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, some 120 kilometres from the Indo-Tibetan border....

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According to the 2001 census, of the town's 332 residents, 235 are male and 97 are female. Four belong to scheduled castes, and 149 belong to scheduled tribes. The village has 78 households.

The village has a helipad, a post office, and a monastery. Travelers often stop for the night here; the village has a hotel, a mountaineers' hut, and a campground. Jispa also has a small folk museum.

External links

• Information and photos on Jispa and surrounds, and distances from Jispa to other centres http://www.hotelibexjispa.com/index.html