Pampore

Pampore was originally called Padmapura.{{Cite book |last=Chib |first=Sukhdev Singh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9OkeAAAAMAAJ&q=bibliogroup:%2522Chib,+Sukhdev+Singh%2522 |title=Jammu and Kashmir |date=1977 |publisher=Light & Life Publishers |page=60|quote=The entire process of saffron growing, harvesting, picking and drying is done in Pampore, which was known as Padmapura in ancient times. India is the second largest producer of Saffron in the world after Iran and Spain}}

Pampore is located at {{Coord|34.02|N|74.93|E}}.{{cite web|url=http://www.fallingrain.com/world/IN/12/Pampur.html|title=Maps, Weather, and Airports for Pampur, India|website=Faiingrain.com|access-date=25 March 2017}}

At the Galander site near Pampore, remains of the large extinct elephant Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus{{Cite journal |last1=Jukar |first1=Advait M. |last2=Bhat |first2=Ghulam |last3=Parfitt |first3=Simon |last4=Ashton |first4=Nick |last5=Dickinson |first5=Marc |last6=Zhang |first6=Hanwen |last7=Dar |first7=A. M. |last8=Lone |first8=M. S. |last9=Thusu |first9=Bindra |last10=Craig |first10=Jonathan |date=2024-10-11 |title=A remarkable Palaeoloxodon (Mammalia, Proboscidea) skull from the intermontane Kashmir Valley, India |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2024.2396821 |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=44 |issue=2 |language=en |doi=10.1080/02724634.2024.2396821 |issn=0272-4634|url-access=subscription }} were found associated with stone tools produced by archaic humans, with the elephant bones suggested to display deliberate fracturing via stone tool hammering. The site is suggested to date to around 400,000-300,000 years ago.{{Cite journal |last1=Bhat |first1=Ghulam M. |last2=Ashton |first2=Nick |last3=Parfitt |first3=Simon |last4=Jukar |first4=Advait |last5=Dickinson |first5=Marc R. |last6=Thusu |first6=Bindra |last7=Craig |first7=Jonathan |date=October 2024 |title=Human exploitation of a straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon) in Middle Pleistocene deposits at Pampore, Kashmir, India |journal=Quaternary Science Reviews |language=en |volume=342 |pages=108894 |doi=10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108894 |doi-access=free|bibcode=2024QSRv..34208894B }}

Pampore is known for its cultivation of saffron, with the broader region around Pampore being responsible for 90% of India's saffron crop, though production as of 2023 has declined due to higher temperatures and erratic rainfall.{{Cite news |date=2023-11-30 |title='Red gold': Why saffron production is dwindling in India |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67143765 |access-date=2024-09-02 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}

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As of the 2011 Indian census,{{cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040616075334/http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999|archive-date=2004-06-16|title= Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)|access-date=2008-11-01|publisher= Census Commission of India}} Pampore tehsil had a population of 60,613. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Pampore has an average literacy rate of 59%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 69%, and female literacy. As of 2011, Pampore town had a population of 21,680, males being 11,007 (51%) and females 10,673 (49%).{{cite web |url=http://ourhero.in/population/cities/pampora-800022/ |title=Pampora, Municipal Committee, Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir city population | Population of India |access-date=2014-06-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140601044017/http://ourhero.in/population/cities/pampora-800022/ |archive-date=2014-06-01 }}

Pampore is an Assembly Constituency in the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly.

• Pampore railway station

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