![]() ![]() Sankoo is a developing township with a small bazaar and numerous villages. A study of these glaciers has yet to be done. Some of these diminishing glaciers are the Nangma Serpo glacier, Batacho glacier, Umba Glacier and Gangshanmo. As a result of global warming, the most widely reported impact is a rapid shrinking of glaciers, which has profound future implications for downstream water resources. Temperatures are most comfortable in April and September. Summers are mild and warm in Sankoo, but the winters are extremely cold and harsh. It had 40,000 or more than 25% population of Kargil district in 2011. In February 2020, various youth, religious and spolitical parties organized a protest of nearly 3,000 people against the creation of a new 14,000 sq-km Muslim majority district of Sankoo out of Kargil because it remains cut off from the Kargil and rest of India during winter snowfall. Some of villages Sankoo are Sangra, Stakpa, Umba, Lankarchay, Thasgam, Barso, Farona and Nagma Kousar. There is one CHC hospital and one secondary school, Aga Syed Haider Rizvi Memorial Higher Secondary School. As the richest and most verdant valley in Ladakh, Sankoo Valley is known as the Ladakh's Gulmarg ("meadow of flowers"). Sankoo is located in a bowl-shaped valley drained by large tributary streams of the Suru River, and the Nakpochu river. ![]() The township is 42 km south of Kargil city. Sankoo ( Wylie: sang ku) is a town in the Kargil district of the union territory of Ladakh in India. ![]()
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