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Madkot
Madkote, Mathkot
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Hierarchy
Growing Region Western Himalayas
Growing Area Gori Valley
Geography
Country India
Province/State Uttarakhand
District Pithoragarh District
Tehsil Munsyari Tehsil
Coordinates 30.0572, 80.2936
Settlement
Type Village
Population 1,330 (2011)
Landscape
Elevation 1,200 m
Documentation
Accessions 1

Madkot (also Madkote; Mathkot on OpenStreetMap) is a village in Munsyari tehsil, Pithoragarh District, Uttarakhand, India, in the Gori Valley growing area. The 2011 census counted 1,330 people in 353 households.[1] One landrace cannabis accession was collected there in September 2025, at 1,200 m.

Geography

Madkot lies 22 km from Munsyari, the tehsil headquarters, and 122 km from Pithoragarh, the district headquarters. The village covers 171 ha.[1] OpenStreetMap places it about 6 km east of Munsyari.

People

Of the 1,330 people counted in 2011, 688 were men and 642 women. Of them, 161 belonged to Scheduled Castes and 293 to Scheduled Tribes.[1]

Cannabis

The accession is seed of a landrace general population from the 2024 harvest, collected on 21 September 2025 on the UTT01 expedition. It describes a short-day crop sown in May and June and harvested from September to November, from seed kept from locally grown flower, grown in monoculture with crop rotation, for several uses.

Accessions

 NameIDTypeElevation (m)Collected
ZOM-IND-UTT-0920250028Madkote General Population 2024ZOM-IND-UTT-0920250028General population1200

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Directorate of Census Operations, Uttarakhand. District Census Handbook, Pithoragarh (Village amenities spreadsheet (DH_2011_DCHB_Village_Release_0500.xlsx)). Census of India 2011, Uttarakhand, Series 06, Part XII-A. Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 9 November 2026.