Gotihawa is a village development committee located about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) southeast of Kapilavastu, in Kapilvastu District, in the Lumbini Zone of southern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3,335 people living in 567 individual households.
There are numerous historical Buddhist pilgrimage sites in Nepal.
Lumbini is the place where Queen Mayadevi gave birth to Siddhartha Gautama in 563 BCE. .