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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Pimpalas (Ramache)
| native_name_lang = mr
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| settlement_type = Town
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| pushpin_map = India Maharashtra
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Maharashtra, India
| coordinates = {{coord|20.0833|N|73.80|E|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flag|India}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Nashik District|Nashik]]
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| government_type = Sub-Division
| governing_body = Sub-Divisional Office, P.W.D. Sub-Division, Additional District Court
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| unit_pref = Metric
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| elevation_m = 569
| population_total = 16322
| population_as_of = 2011
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| demographics_type1 = Languages
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]
| postal_code = 422301
| area_code_type = Telephone code
| area_code = 02550
| registration_plate = MH 15
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'''Pimpalas''' is the name both of a town<ref>{{Cite web |title=सेंट्रल बैंक पिम्पल्स शाखा {{!}} सेंट्रल बैंक पिम्पल्स शाखाएँ {{!}} सेंट्रल बैंक पिम्पल्स संपर्क {{!}} सेंट्रल बैंक पिम्पल्स पता - हिन्दी में {{!}} Central Bank pimplas Branch {{!}} Central Bank pimplas Branches {{!}} Central Bank pimplas Contact {{!}} Central Bank pimplas Address - in Hindi |url=https://www.bankhindi.com/Central-bank-pimplas-branch/nasik_18-20-c4 |access-date=2024-12-19 |website=www.bankhindi.com |language=hi}}</ref> and a taluka<ref>{{Cite book |last=India |first=Industrial Finance Corporation of |url=https://www.google.com.pk/books/edition/Report/iTs5AAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Pimpalas+Taluka&dq=Pimpalas+Taluka&printsec=frontcover |title=Report |date=1971 |language=en}}</ref> in the Nashik District of [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]. The [[Marathi language|Marathi]] name signifies "a place without mountains", and indeed the taluka's topography is fairly level, with hardly any hills. It is served by Kasabe Sukena railway station.pimpalas's latitude and longitude coordinates are {{coord|20|5|0|N|74|7|0|E}}. Located northeast of [[Nashik]] city, the Taluka borders [[Sinnar]], [[Nashik]], [[Dindori, Maharashtra|Dindori]], [[Chandwad]], and [[Yeola]] Talukas and [[Ahmednagar District]], and has no direct access to the sea.
[[File:Niphad stationboard.JPG|thumb|Niphad stationboard]]
[[File:Niphad platformboard.JPG|thumb|Niphad platformboard]]

==Pimpalas Town==

About {{Convert|35|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} northeast of [[Nashik]], the town lies on the Nashik–[[Aurangabad, Maharashtra|Aurangabad]] Highway and has a station on the [[Mumbai]]–[[Nagpur]] section of the [[Central Railway (India)|Central Railway]]. Although facilities in the surrounding villages are improving, the town remains the local transportation and communication hub as well as the seat of government and law enforcement, with additional district courts serving the Niphad, Yeola and Pimpalgaon Baswant courts. Pimpalas is also the center for medical and veterinary care, trade, Land Development Bank branches and many Co-operative Banks. It is also a center for education, with high schools, junior colleges, senior colleges, private ITI and other technical Institutes.

==Religious sites==
Pimpalas Town is home to a number of [[Hindu]] [[temple]]s dedicated to various deities. The Prabhu Shri Ram's temple is located in pimpalas. Its where the Ganesh and Hanuman temple are also located. A traditional fair in honour of Shree Khandoba (not to be confused with another Khandoba fair in Chandori in the Taluka) is held on Magha Shuddha Paurnima and attracts a large number of people from the surrounding areas.

==Flora and fauna==
Agrarian Pimpalas is one of the district's most fertile—and flood-prone—talukas.
Its major rivers are the [[Godavari River|Godavari]] and its tributary, the Kadawa; as of 1975 [[irrigation]] was achieved by means of the Vadali river dam, ''[[dam|bandhara]]'', near the taluka, in addition to "well over a hundred" [[Water well|wells]]. [[Sugarcane]] is one of the most important agricultural products and the basis for a [[sugar]] refining and [[ethanol|alcohol]] distilling industry, conducted at two [[co-operative]] sugar factories, the Niphad Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana in Bhausahebnagar and the Karmaveer Kakasaheb Wagh Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana in Kakasahebnagar. Major wine producers in the Vinchur MIDC area are the Vinsura and Vinsula wineries. Other major crops include onions, grapes, soybean, tomatoes and flowers, all exported internationally, as well as [[wheat]], [[Urad (bean)|gram]], and other [[vegetable]]s and [[grain]]s ([[pearl millet|bajra]], [[sorghum]], [[tur (bean)|tur]]). Pimpalas is the largest grape processing location in India.

==Demographics==
In the 2001 [[Census#India|census]], the total population of Pimpalas was 10,322.

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Nashik district}}

[[Category:Cities and towns in Nashik district]]
[[Category:Talukas in Maharashtra]]

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