Padum (also known as Padam) is the main town and the administrative centre of the Zanskar tehsil in Kargil district, Ladakh, India.

[1] The traditional heart of the village is below the gompa and Palace khar (now in ruins) where two large chortens stand above old buildings.

The sub-divisional capital Padum is a town of the Zanskar sub-division or tehsil in the Kargil district of Ladakh state, India.

The Zanskar River flows through the valley from its source at the Drang Drung glacier of the Pensi La.

[citation needed] Other roads, including the highway from Leh to Srinagar via Kargil, remain open until the end of October.