Dolpa District

district of Nepal

airport in Nepal

river in Nepal

thumb|Local people in meeting in Dolpo thumb|Yak caravan near Saldang in the northern part of Dolpo. Dolpo ( ) is a high-altitude culturally Tibetan region in the upper part of the Dolpa District of western Nepal, bordered in the north by China. Part of the region lies in Shey Phoksundo National Park. The sparse, agro-pastoral population, known as Dolpo or Dolpopa in standard Tibetan and Dhol-wa in the local dialect, is connected to the rest of Nepal via Jufal airport, which can be reached in three days by horse. As the 2011 census, the population of Dolpo is estimated to be 36,700 with the ma