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Annapurna is a subrange of the Himalaya. Annapurna I reaches 8,091 m 26,538 ft, making it the 10th-highest summit in the world, one of fourteen over 8000 meters in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges. It extends east from a huge gorge cut through the Himalaya by the Kaligandaki River to the Marsyangi River. The Dhaulagiri Range rises west of the Kaligandaki. 8,167 meter Dhaulagiri I is only 34km 21 mi from Annapurna I, making the valley between over 20,000 feet 6,000 meters deep.
Annapurna is a Sanskrit name, literally "full of grain" which can also be translated as "Goddess of the Harvests". She is an avatar alternative form of the goddes Durga.
