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Kalga is the Locality page for the village of the Parvati Valley near Pulga, on the trail to Kheerganga, that gives its name to two Coco Genes accessions. Also spelled Kalgha. The 2011 census does not enumerate it separately.

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Coordinates and elevation

• The infobox point, 31.9968, 77.4517, is the OpenStreetMap node "Kalga" (node 756382656, place=hamlet; name:hi कल्घा). SRTM gives 2,291 m there. The node lies about 0.85 km east of Tulga (773592955), 1.1 km east of Pulga (245772916) and 1.2 km east-south-east of Barsheni (773592738).
• The infobox elevation, 2,500 m, is the Coco Genes listing's figure, which COC-IND-HIM-0120200001 also stores. SRTM at the OSM node is about 210 m lower. The English Wikipedia article gives about 2,280 m, sourced to a Lonely Planet India piece; not used.
• The listing's coordinate, "31.2926° N, 77.9963° E", lies about 94 km south-east of the OSM node, outside Kullu district. The accession page leaves its coordinate field empty; the article does not repeat the listing's coordinate.
• settlement_type = Village follows the listing's "small village"; OpenStreetMap tags Kalga as a hamlet. No admin_3 is set.

Source notes

• The Coco Genes listing (archived 16 January 2021, 27 June 2022 and 24 April 2024, the same text each time) is cited from those captures; the live page answers HTTP 403. The key coc-kalga is copied character for character from COC-IND-HIM-0120200001.
• Not used from the listing: its claim that the region's hand-rubbed extracts treat "intense pain in joints and bones", its aroma, flowering-time and effect fields, and "Devotees of Karthikeya … for thousands of years" beyond the attributed sentence.
• The reproduction (COC-IND-HIM-0120200001-R1) comes from Coco Genes' "Sister Villages : Kalga 2021" listing, whose images are "from a reproduction run from the 2020 seeds" grown in California.
• HimbuMail (3 December 2025) lists "Kulka" and "Kulga" among the valleys of the charas trade. Neither is identified with Kalga.
• ChandrasekharamAlam (2005) spells the spring Khirganga.
• Rathore et al. (2018) report their findings for the five survey villages together; the article places no single use in Kalga.