Administrative
Panchagarh District
Panchagarh
has five Upazilas:
upazila
|
population
(2011)[5]
|
271707
|
|
224709
|
|
232124
|
|
133650
|
|
125454
|
Tourist
spots and places of interest
Atwari
As tourist
spot, Atwari has the three domed mosque at Mirzapur, Chhaprajhar (Pahar bhanga)
and Sardarpara, which bears the relics of Mughal architecture; remains of the
ruined the "Zamindar Bari" of Aloakhoa. The Bara Awliyar Majar is
another notable place in the upazila.
Atwari has
the marks of War of Liberation of 1971. These are 2 mass graves, 1 twin grave
and 1 martyr memorial monument.
Mirzapur
Jamei Mosque
Chaprajhar
Mosque
Solthori
Mosque
Shordarpara
Mosque
Tetulia
Tetulia has
great hospitality for tourists. It has a "Dak Banglo" situated on the
bank of river Mahananda facing Darjeeling, a charming ice city of India. Tea of
Tetulia has same quality like tea of Darjeeling. The "Kazi &
Kazi" tea garden, the "Tetulia Tea" garden, the Banglabandha
land port are the attractive places for the visitors.
Remnants of a
fort at a place named Buraburi between Bhajanpur and Tetulia. Also Bhadreswar
temple and Shiva-temple are the two tombstones of the Greek sculptural.It has
Bhadreswar Temple, Vitorgarh.
Panchagarh
Sadar
Mirzapur in
Panchagarh
Maharaja
Dighi (Pond) at Bhitargarh is well known tourist attraction of the sadar
upazila. Bhitrar Shalmara is a notable beel (Lake). Shal forest of Bhitargarh
and the government forest on the banks of the Chawai and Karatoya are notable.
During the War of Liberation in 1971 the
guerrilla fighters demolished the bridge on the Chawai near the Amarkhana camp
thereby obstructing the advance of the Pak-army towards the north. At the
initial stage of the war Maqbul Darji & the Badi Howladar (EPR) were killed
in an encounter with the Pak army which however lost eighteen of its soldiers.
The Shaheed
Farooque Ahmad memorial monument at Dhakka-mara in Panchagarh town is the marks
of war of liberation. Also the grave of the martyr freedom fighter Sakimuddin
at Jagdal-hat in front of the Baital Aman mosque is another Mark of the war.
Pond of
beside the 12 Auliar mazar in Panchagarh
Boda
The
Vadeswari mosque, Vadeswari temple and Govinda temple are the tourist
attractions in Boda.
Debiganj
In Debiganj,
the Revenue office building and old residential house of the raja of Kuch-Bihar
is famous; Also Jagabandhu Thakur-bari is another place of interest for the
tourists. The town has one Dakbungalow (Rest house). thumbnail
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