Bhowali

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Bhowali ( ; Devanagari: भवाली, Kumaoni: ) is a municipal town and major commercial road junction situated in the Nainital district of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. Administratively, the town is governed under the Nainital tehsil. Positioned in the Outer Lesser Himalayas at an average altitude of 1,706 metres (5,597 feet) above mean sea level, the town is located 11 kilometres east of Nainital, 11 kilometres northwest of Bhimtal, and 35 kilometres north of the railway terminus at Kathgodam. Historically developed as a health resort and mountain sanatorium station, Bhowali is the site of the King Edward VII Sanatorium, established in 1912 across 18 hectares of pine forest for the specialized open-air treatment of tuberculosis. The town serves as the primary horticultural wholesale marketplace (fruit mandi) for the central Kumaon division, handling regional commerce in apples, peaches, plums, apricots, and strawberries. In addition, Bhowali accommodates the Uttarakhand Judicial and Legal Academy (UJALA), the state judicial training institute founded in 2004.

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1. date of establishment: 1912 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. date of foundation: 2004 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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