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{{short description|Mountain in Gujarat, India}}
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{{Infobox mountain
| name = Kalo Dungar (Mount Karo)
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| photo = Rann of Kutch - Highest Point.jpg
| photo_caption = Monument on Kala dunger
| elevation_m = 462
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| location = [[Khavda]], Kutch district, Gujarat, India
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| map = India Gujarat | region =
| map_caption = Location in Gujarat
| label = Kalo Dungar
| label_position = right
| coordinates = {{coord|23|56|03|N|69|48|50|E|type:mountain_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
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'''Kalo Dungar''' or '''Black Hill''' is the highest point in [[Kutch]], Gujarat, India, at {{cvt|462|m}}. It is located {{cvt|97|km}} from District headquarters of [[Bhuj]] and {{cvt|25|km}} from nearest town [[Khavda]].<ref name=a>{{Cite web|url=http://www.gujarattourism.com/showpage.aspx?contentid=34&webpartid=42|title=The Black Hills (Kalo Dungar)|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111028024313/http://www.gujarattourism.com/showpage.aspx?contentid=34&webpartid=42|archive-date=2011-10-28|access-date=2019-12-19}}</ref><ref name=b>[https://bichhubooti.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/the-jackals-and-legend-of-kalo-dungar/ The Jackals and Legend of Kalo Dungar]</ref><ref name=c>[https://books.google.com/books?id=gZRLGZNZEoEC&dq=kalo+dungar&pg=PA324 KALO DUNGAR]</ref>

It is near the border with Pakistan and there is an army post at the top where only military personnel are allowed.<ref name=a/><ref name=b/><ref name=c/>

The Kalo Dungar also has a 400-year-old [[Dattatreya]] temple.<ref name=a/><ref name=b/><ref name=c/> ''Kalo Dungar magnetic hill'' is an [[optical illusion]] where a vehicle seems to [[gravity hill|defy the gravity]] and roll up the slope.<ref name=kd1/><ref name="Kaushik 2011"/>

==Etymology==
The word ''Kalo Dungar'' means the ''Black Hill'' in [[Kutchi language]], from the words ''Kalo'' for the ''Black'' and ''Dungar'' for the ''Hill''.<ref>[https://www.nativeplanet.com/travel-guide/gravity-hills-in-india-002880.html Not Just One, There are 3 Gravity Hills in India], nativeplanet.com, 18 April 2018.</ref>

==Dattatreya temple==
The Kalo Dungar is also famous for a 400-year-old [[Dattatreya]] temple. Legend says that when Dattatreya walked on the earth, he stopped at the Kalo Dungar and found a band of starving jackals. Being a god, he offered them his body to eat and as they ate, his body continually regenerated itself. Because of this, for the last four centuries, the priest at the temple has prepared a batch of [[Prasad (food offering)|prasad]], cooked rice, that is fed to the jackals after the evening [[aarti]].<ref name=a/><ref name=b/><ref name=c/>

Another, legend has it that there was once a holy man named Lakkh Guru residing at Kala Dungar and worshiping the Lord Dattatreya. He used to feed wild jackals. There came a day when he found he had no food, so he cut off a part of his body and offered it to the jackals, saying, "Le ang!" ("take the body part"). Over the centuries, this got corrupted to "Long".<ref name=b/>

{{Wide image|Kado dungar.jpg|1100px|Panoramic view of the [[Great Rann of Kutch]] from Kalo dungar}}

== Gravity hill optical illusion ==
{{ anchor | Kalo Dungar magnetic hill | Kalo Dungar gravity hill | Dungar optical illusion}}
{{ see also | List_of_gravity_hills#India | l1= List of gravity hills in India }}

'''Kalo Dungar magnetic hill''' or '''Kalo Dungar Anti Gravity slope''' is an hill road with [[optical illusion]] of a [[gravity hill]] where vehicle seems to defy the gravity and roll from down slope to up the slope. A strange phenomenon was observed at Kalo Dungar, when some visitors noticed that their vehicles would attain speeds over {{convert|80|km/h}} driving down the hill even with the ignition switched off, a much higher velocity than descending other nearby peaks. A team of experts from the Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority (GSDMA); Institute of Seismological Research, [[Gandhinagar]]; and [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]] studied the phenomenon.<ref name=kd1>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120606143913/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-12-26/ahmedabad/28256947_1_gsdma-rann-utsav-phenomenon Experts set to probe mystery roll-down at Kalo Dungar] TIMES OF INDIA, DEC 26,2010</ref> It was concluded that the vehicles pick up speed because the slope is steeper than it appears to the traveller (see [[gravity hill]]).<ref name="Kaushik 2011">{{cite web | last=Kaushik | first=Himanshu | title=Nothing magnetic about Kala Dungar | website=The Times of India | date=20 October 2011 | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Nothing-magnetic-about-Kala-Dungar/articleshow/10421349.cms | access-date=7 February 2016}}</ref>

It is {{cvt|5.2|km}} west of the Kutch Dattaterya Temple, {{cvt|5.6|km}} south of India Bridge historic landmark, {{cvt|5.6|km}}east of BSF Camp on State Highway SH45, {{cvt|5.4|km}} east of the [[Intersection (road)#Road segments|Y-fork intersection]] the intersection where Kalo Dungar road starts off the State Highway SH45, {{cvt|3|km}} east of Drobhana post office, {{cvt|12|km}} northeast of [[Khavda]], {{cvt|33|km}} northwest of [[Kutch]] city, {{cvt|52.6|km}} south of [[India–Pakistan border]], {{cvt|83|km}} north of [[Bhuj]], {{cvt|138|km}} north of [[Gandhidham]], and 410 northwest of [[Ahmedabad]] via NH947-NH27-NH314.

==Gallery==
<gallery mode="packed" heights="134">
Image:Mount Kiro.jpg|Mount Kiro
Image:Kala Dunger mountain view.jpg|Kala Dunger mountain view
Image:View from kala dunger kutch.JPG|View from kala dunger
Image:View from kala dunger.JPG|View from kala dunger
Image:Salt desert.jpg|Salt desert from Karo Dunger
</gallery>

==See also==
*[[Panchmai Pir]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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[[Category:Hills of Gujarat]]
[[Category:Geography of Kutch district]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions in Kutch district]]
[[Category:Gravity hills]]

Kalo Dungar - Revision history

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