{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2019}} {{Use Indian English|date=January 2019}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Lambasingi | native_name = | other_name = | settlement_type = Village | image_skyline = {{Photomontage | photo1a = Valley near lambasinghi.jpg | photo2a = Lambasinghi_on_a_cloudy_day.jpg | photo2b = Lambasinghi_Forest.jpg | photo3a = Strawberry farm in Lambasinghi.jpg | photo3b = Foggy mornings of Araku.jpg | photo4a = The Beautiful Lambasingi, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.jpg | spacing = 1 | size = 250 | position = center | border = 0 | color = #000000 | foot_montage = '''From top''': View from Valley, Lambasinghi Hilltop, Lambasinghi Forest, Strawberry farm, foggy morning, Forest view }} | image_caption = Valley near [https://lambasingi.org/ Lambasinghi] | nickname = Kashmir of Andhra Pradesh | mapframe = yes | mapframe-zoom = 14 | pushpin_map = India Andhra Pradesh | pushpin_label_position = left | coordinates = {{coord|17.818892|82.493069|region:IN|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = India | subdivision_type1 = State | subdivision_name1 = Andhra Pradesh | subdivision_type2 = District | subdivision_name2 = Alluri Sitharama Raju | subdivision_type3 = Mandal | subdivision_name3 = Chintapalli | established_title = <!-- Established --> | established_date = october 18, 2018 | unit_pref = Metric | area_total_km2 = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = 1000 | population_footnotes = | population_total = | population_as_of = | population_density_km2 = auto | demographics_type1 = Languages | demographics1_title1 = Official | demographics1_info1 = Telugu | timezone1 = IST | utc_offset1 = +5:30 | postal_code_type = PIN | postal_code = 531116 | area_code_type = Telephone code | area_code = | website = {{URL|https://lambasingi.org.in/}} | official_name = }} '''Lambasingi''' (or '''Lammasingi''') is a small village in the Eastern Ghats of Chintapalli Mandal of Alluri Sitharama Raju district in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It's also referred as the "Kashmir of Andhra Pradesh". With an altitude that of 1000 m (3280 ft) above sea level, the area is cooler than the surrounding plains and is covered in moist deciduous forest cover. There are several coffee, pine, and eucalyptus plantations around the area and some small attempts to grow apples and strawberries.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lambasingi: The Kashmir of Andhra Pradesh |url=https://aptourism.gov.in/destinations/94/lambasingi#:~:text=Lambasingi%20is%20famous%20for%20its,past%20to%20have%20supported%20tigers. |publisher=AP Tourism Authority}}</ref>
The region was formerly densely covered in forests and known in the past to have supported tigers.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lambasingi, Andhra Pradesh |url=https://www.rural.tourism.gov.in/Lambasingi-Tribal-tourism.html#:~:text=The%20area%20was%20formerly%20highly,to%20a%20remote%20tribal%20group. |publisher=Rural Tourism GOI}}</ref> The large wildlife in the region includes gaur.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Raju, KSR Krishna| author2= Krishnamurthy, AVRG| author3= Reddi, C Subba| author4= Reddy, NAV Prasad| author5= Lokaranjan, R| author6= Shankar, KJNG |year=1987| title= Status of wildlife and habitat conservation in Andhra Pradesh.| journal= J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc.| volume= 84| issue=3| pages= 605–619|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49081704 }}</ref> The region is known for its diversity of bird life which were studied by numerous ornithologists including Trevor Price, Dillon Ripley, Bruce Beehler and K. S. R. Krishna Raju.<ref>{{cite book|title=Lost Worlds|url=https://archive.org/details/lostworldsadvent00beeh|url-access=registration|author=Beehler, Bruce M.|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2008|pages=[https://archive.org/details/lostworldsadvent00beeh/page/69 69-75]}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author1=Beehler, Bruce|author2= Raju, KSRK| author3=Ali, Shahid |year=1987|title= Avian use of man-disturbed forest in the Eastern Ghats, India. |journal=Ibis |volume=129|pages=197–211}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Price, Trevor| year=1977 | title= October at Lammasinghi| journal= Newsletter for Birdwatchers| volume= 17|issue=4|pages= [https://archive.org/details/NLBW17/page/n109 7]-8|url= https://archive.org/details/NLBW17 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author1=Ripley, S Dillon| author2= Beehler, Bruce M| author3= Raju, KSR Krishna |year=1988| title= Birds of the Visakhapatnam Ghats, Andhra Pradesh| journal= J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc.|volume= 85|issue=1|pages= 90–107|url= https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48804595}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49081635| author1= Ripley, S Dillon| author2= Beehler, Bruce M| author3= Raju, KSR Krishna |year=1987|title= Birds of the Visakhapatnam Ghats, Andhra Pradesh.| journal= J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc.|volume= 84| issue=3|pages= 540–559}}</ref>
== Climate == Temperatures in Lambasingi, on few occasions in winter, dip below freezing. It is the Southernmost Point in India which Andhra people claim to have seen snow, but it is not clear whether hailstones or fog is referred to as snow. [https://www.timesnownews.com/travel/destinations/the-only-place-in-south-india-which-sees-snowfall-article-115410167]{{Weather box | location = Lambasingi, Andhra Pradesh | metric first = Y | single line = yes | Jan high C = 22.3 | Feb high C = 23.1 | Mar high C = 26.5 | Apr high C = 28.6 | May high C = 29.4 | Jun high C = 27.6 | Jul high C = 23.2 | Aug high C = 23.1 | Sep high C = 23.5 | Oct high C = 22.9 | Nov high C = 22.1 | Dec high C = 21.5 | Jan low C = 10.1 | Feb low C = 11.4 | Mar low C = 14.6 | Apr low C = 19.9 | May low C = 21.5 | Jun low C = 21.6 | Jul low C = 21.0 | Aug low C = 20.3 | Sep low C = 20.2 | Oct low C = 16.1 | Nov low C = 12.6 | Dec low C = 9.5 |date=December 2023}}
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== External links == *https://aptourism.gov.in/destinations/94/lambasingi#:~:text=Lambasingi%20is%20famous%20for%20its,past%20to%20have%20supported%20tigers. {{commons category|Lambasingi}}
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