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On the periphery of the lake there is the Maipokhari Botanical Garden of horticultural and ecological importance which houses a rock garden, an orchid house, plants collected from many regions of eastern Nepal, and a green house.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"type","label":"Type","values":[{"text":"wetland","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170321"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6735168#P31"}},{"key":"located_in","label":"Located in","values":[{"text":"Ilam District (district of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q29016","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/ilam-district"},{"text":"Koshi Province (province of Nepal)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25104008","page":"https://diginpl.com/places/koshi-province"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6735168#P131"}},{"key":"area","label":"Area","values":[{"text":"90 ha","value":90.0}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6735168#P2046"}},{"key":"heritage","label":"Heritage status","values":[{"text":"Ramsar site","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19683138","start":"2008-10-28"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6735168#P1435"}},{"key":"established","label":"Established","values":[{"text":"2008","date":"2008"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6735168#P571"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mai_Pokhari","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%88%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6735168"],"faq":[{"q":"Where is Mai Pokhari located?","a":"Mai Pokhari is located in Ilam District, Koshi Province, Nepal."}],"related":[{"name":"Mount Everest","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/mount-everest"},{"name":"Himalayas","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/himalayas"},{"name":"Kathmandu","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/kathmandu"},{"name":"Kangchenjunga","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/kangchenjunga"},{"name":"Annapurna (mountain range)","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/annapurna-mountain-range"},{"name":"Dhaulagiri","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/dhaulagiri"},{"name":"Makalu","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/makalu"},{"name":"Lhotse","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/lhotse"},{"name":"Cho Oyu","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/cho-oyu"},{"name":"Manaslu","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/manaslu"},{"name":"Pokhara","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/pokhara"},{"name":"Lumbini","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/lumbini"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[{"name":"Sulubung","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/sulubung","km":2.5},{"name":"Sumbek","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/sumbek","km":3.6},{"name":"Sakhejung","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/sakhejung","km":5.3},{"name":"Jamuna, Nepal","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/jamuna-nepal","km":5.4},{"name":"Maipokhari","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/maipokhari","km":5.6},{"name":"Sandakpur Rural Municipality","url":"https://diginpl.com/places/sandakpur-rural-municipality","km":5.6}],"image":{"url":"https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Mai_pokhari_ilam_10.jpg/3840px-Mai_pokhari_ilam_10.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail","width":640,"height":425,"license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","credit":"Hari gurung77","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mai_pokhari_ilam_10.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Mai Pokhari","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mai_Pokhari","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikipedia (Nepali): माईपोखरी","url":"https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%88%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q6735168","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6735168","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Mai pokhari ilam 10.jpg by Hari gurung77 (CC BY-SA 4.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mai_pokhari_ilam_10.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Mai Pokhari, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Mai pokhari ilam 10.jpg — Hari gurung77, CC BY-SA 4.0.","cite":"\"Mai Pokhari\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/places/mai-pokhari. Retrieved 4 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T10:00:46Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-04","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/places/mai-pokhari","en":"https://diginpl.com/places/mai-pokhari","ne":"https://diginpl.com/places/mai-pokhari?lang=ne"}}