Talk:National Highway 13 (India)

Update the outdated map

The map in the current article is incomplete. The NH13 extends south even further till Wakro in Assam with a totla route length of 1,559 km connect 12 of the existing 16 district headquarters. Please update map to extend the route in redline further. Thanks. 58.182.176.169 (talk) 13:01, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

Bum La Pass

According to the Bhuvan geo-mapping site, NH 13 now reaches the Bum La Pass in the Zemithang Circle (pretty much up to the Sumdorong Chu valley). This is not the Bum La Pass that is a border crossing. (I have no idea how we ended up with two Bum La Passes in the same district!)

Among the places the NH 13 passes is "Sho Naa Tseir Lake" (Shonga-tser Lake, better known as "Madhuri Lake"), which you can search for on Bhuvan. (Its search facility is not great.) -- Kautilya3 (talk) 19:48, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

@Kautilya3: There is a place called "Y-Junction" between Bum-La pass and Tawang, from there the routes to Bum-La pass and the lake diverge. But as far as I remember there is no further road from the lake and both are not on the same route. Unless, as you said about the possibility of two Bum-La passes in the same district. Santoshdts ^[TalkToMe] 12:06, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

Sorry, I should have given the coordinates:

• Bum La border crossing: 27.7236979°N 91.8916106°E / 27.7236979; 91.8916106
• Bum La Pass tourist attraction: 27.7626077°N 91.7809888°E / 27.7626077; 91.7809888

(There is no pass here as such. The closest thing to a pass a little behind at 27.7570839°N 91.7828805°E / 27.7570839; 91.7828805.)

I have no idea where the "Y-Junction" is. -- Kautilya3 (talk) 15:14, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

Santoshdts, this traveller's post clarifies the situation. The Y-junction located here sends branches to the Sangestar lake on the one hand and the Bum La border crossing on the other hand. The traveller went to Sangetsar in the morning and Bum La in the afternoon coming back to the Y-junction in the process.

Secondly, the pass at 27.7570839°N 91.7828805°E / 27.7570839; 91.7828805 is apparently not called "Bum La". Its name is Lungro La. So I have no idea why the tourist attraction has been named "Bum La". -- Kautilya3 (talk) 15:05, 16 July 2020 (UTC)

• Another thing Bhuvan tells you is that the NH 13 is called the "Shivaji Road". The only explanation I can think of for the sudden appearance of "Shivaji" in this region is that it is probably a misspelling of "Sundarji". -- Kautilya3 (talk) 12:28, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

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