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Armala is a town and Village Development Committee in Kaski District in the Gandaki Zone of northern-central Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 4,921 persons living in 1,012 individual households.
Armala VDC lies in the northern side of Kaski District of Gandaki Zone of Nepal. The VDC borders Sildure in North, Gharmi Pokhara in North-south, Mauja in East, Puranchaur VDC in West and Pokhara Metropolitan City along with Valam in South. According to Administrative and Political division, this VDC is divided into 9 wards. This VDC occupies 36.01 km area.
AS this VDC has a graveled road linked with Mahendra Cave Armala Road, anyone can have easy access up to the VDC.
Historically, there is no legal and acceptable saying about the naming of the VDC. Although, people predict the following saying about the naming of the VDC.
- This VDC is named as Armala, as there used to be lots fruits named Amala. Since then people started to call as Amala, Amala, which later came to known as Armala.
- Before, as people. Farmers leave their animals freely in this area, animals used to eat lots of crops, due to which they need to pay for the crops as fine, which is known as Armal. Since the system of paying Armal was more, people used to call the place as Armal, which then becomes Armala.
Armala is surrounded by thick green forest of different trees and plants like Chanp, Katus, Uttis, Kalche, Laligurans (Rododendron), Chandan, Kafal, Falat, Lalupate, Paiyeu, Simal etc.
Different animals like Tiger, bear, leopard, nyale bag, harin, ghoral, fox, jackal, rabit, deer, wild cat etc. are found here.
Different birds like danfe, munal, eagle, vulture, sparrow, danger, crane, ureli, dhikur, bankukhura, kalij, crow, maluwa, litchi, titro, parrot, raja chara, rani chara etc. are found here.
We find people of different cast living together sharing their culture and supporting each other.
A place in Armala named Kalamuda is a drinking water source for Pokhara Metropolitan city and surrounding places.