Place · highland hamlet · India
Lambasingi
The highland hamlet at 1,000m in the Eastern Ghats of Alluri Sitarama Raju district, Andhra Pradesh, 100 kilometres from Visakhapatnam — the only location in southern India where temperatures drop below freezing in winter, giving the village its nickname 'Andhra's Kashmir' or 'Andhra's Shimla'. Temperatures reach -2°C in December-January, producing light frost on the surrounding coffee plantations. The 2017 coffee frost damage led to the formation of the Lambasingi Coffee Growers' Association. The village sits in the catchment of the Visakhapatnam reservoir system. The 2016 Lambasingi Tourism Promotion Scheme by the Andhra Pradesh government drew tourism to the highland zone. The surrounding Lambasingi Reserve Forest preserves the Eastern Ghats biodiversity.
- Function
- Religious institution & practice
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 17.930, 82.520
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- AnalogueMedak
Medak's cathedral was built as famine relief employment between 1914 and 1924 and is one of the largest churches in Asia; Lambasingi is a village known for recording frost. Both are here because this region is routinely described as a delta and is in fact a set of very different landscapes — coast, plateau, ghat highland — with very different histories on each.
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Sources
Wikipedia, “Lambasingi”. Archaeological Survey of India and State Archaeology monument records, and the standard regional literature.
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