Cherrapunji Rainforest Region

About Cherrapunji Rainforest Region

The Cherrapunji region — known locally as Sohra — was for over a century recorded as the wettest place on earth, receiving an average of 11,000 mm of rainfall annually and a world-record 26,000 mm in a single year. The surrounding subtropical forests grow in a landscape where waterfalls thunder year-round and the War-Khasi people have engineered extraordinary living root bridges — grown from aerial roots of rubber fig trees — to span the flood-prone rivers. The paradox of Cherrapunji is that despite receiving the world's most rain, it faces water scarcity in winter due to the deforested plateau above.