The Kathmandu-Kakani area (60 km²) includes part of the Kolpu Khola watershed which flows into the Trisuli River, parts of the Kathmandu Valley, and surrounding forested hills. The Kolpu Khola watershed, with relatively dense population, intense agricultural use, and severe mountain hazards problems, is representative of many parts of the Nepalese Middle Mountain belt. Notes are given on a multi-coloured land-use map of the area (scale 1:10000). About 50% of the area is cultivated terraces mainly on steep slopes. Forests, except in the northern part of the protected Royal Forest (Rani Ban), have been very extensively degraded and replaced by large areas of shrubland. Between 1964 and 1971 cultivated land increased at the expense of pastures and forests. Notes are also given on a map of geomorphic damages (scale 1:10000). Most damage occurs in the steep, cultivated Hill Zone. Erosive processes in the forested areas and on the plain of the Kathmandu Basin are of minor importance.