Tamghas, also Gulmi Tamghas or Tamghas Bazaar is a town and the headquarters of Gulmi District

Gulmi District

Gulmi District of 296,654. It is famous for coffee farming. Ruru, a Holy Place now also known as Ridi,is a market centre,where many of the tamples are situated.Maghe sankranti and other festivals are celebrated here. Many local as well as foreign tourists come here to visit the place...

, Nepal

Nepal

Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...

. It is located at 28°4'0N 83°15'0E with an altitude of 1838 metres (6033 feet). As of 2001 it had a population of 10, 680. There are significant cobalt

Cobalt

Cobalt is a chemical element with symbol Co and atomic number 27. It is found naturally only in chemically combined form. The free element, produced by reductive smelting, is a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal....

 reserves in the area.In the 1970s a road was planned between Tamghas and Palpa District

Palpa District

-Village Development Committee :*Archale*Argali*Bahadurpur*Bakamalang*Baldengadhi*Bandi Pokhara*Barangdi old name archale barangdi name came from barandi khola on the bank of this river the famous rani mahal is situated*Bhairabsthan*Bhuwan...

.The village of Arkhale

Arkhale, Lumbini

Arkhale is a town and municipality in Gulmi District in the Lumbini Zone of central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 6196 persons residing in 1165 individual households.-External links:*...

 is located just to the northwest.

Notable landmarks

Tamghas contains the main educational institutions in Gulmi District including Gandaki Boarding School, Vujelkharka School, Siddababa School, Donbosco School, Buddha Lower Secondary School, Resunga Higher Secondary School, Mahendra Higher Secondary School and Readers Public School. The district government offices and the police headquarters is located in the town and the Nepalese Army also have a base here. The town is served by Tamghas Hospital, located just south of Tamghas Jail.Notable places of worship in Tamghas are Shivalaya, Bhagawati Mandir, Thaghas Vagawati Mandir and Siddhababa Mandir.