Dopshari Gewog

Shaba Gewog

Shaba is a gewog in Paro District, western Bhutan, covering 76.4 square kilometres at elevations between 2,200 and 2,850 metres. It is home to the Dra Karpo and Dongkala pilgrimage sites and has a population of 5,941.

Dagala Gewog

Dagala Gewog is a high-altitude gewog in Thimphu District, Bhutan, named after the Dagala Range. Known for the Dagala Thousand Lakes Trek, alpine meadows, and yak herding, the gewog covers 85 square kilometres and supports a small community of approximately 178 households whose livelihoods depend primarily on livestock.

Wangchang Gewog

Wangchang Gewog is a prosperous agricultural gewog in Paro District, western Bhutan. Located centrally within the dzongkhag and adjacent to the Paro College of Education, it covers 34.2 square kilometres of rice paddies, apple orchards, and forested hillsides at elevations between 2,200 and 2,340 metres.

Naja Gewog

Naja is a gewog in southern Paro District, western Bhutan, covering 151.8 square kilometres with 22 villages. It borders Haa District and has a population of approximately 3,002, with an economy based on vegetable farming, organic agriculture, and livestock.

Dopshari Gewog

Dopshari Gewog is a gewog in Paro District, western Bhutan, occupying the valley between central Paro and Paro International Airport. It is home to Jangtsa Dumtseg Lhakhang, a 15th-century temple in chorten form built by the iron-bridge builder Thangtong Gyalpo.

Genekha Gewog

Genekha Gewog is a rural block in Thimphu Dzongkhag, Bhutan, about an hour's drive south of the capital. Known for its production of prized matsutake and chanterelle mushrooms, it hosts the annual Genekha Matsutake Mushroom Festival and serves as the starting point for the Dagala Thousand Lakes Trek.

Soe Gewog

Soe Gewog is a remote highland block in the far north of Thimphu Dzongkhag, Bhutan, under Lingzhi Dungkhag and bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region. Lying at altitudes from around 3,800 metres to over 5,000 metres at the foot of Jomolhari, it is the smallest gewog in the country by population, with a yak-herding community of about 200 people. Several of Bhutan's major trekking routes pass through it.

Paro District

Paro District (Dzongkha: སྤ་རོ་རྫོང་ཁག) is one of the twenty dzongkhags of Bhutan, located in the western part of the country. Home to Bhutan's only international airport and some of the kingdom's most iconic landmarks including the Tiger's Nest monastery, Paro is one of the most historically significant and economically important districts in the nation.

Dumtseg Lhakhang

A 15th-century temple near Paro built in the shape of a chorten by the Tibetan polymath Thangtong Gyalpo, with three floors representing the underworld, earth, and heaven in Buddhist cosmology.