Muchu is a village in Namkha rural municipality in Humla District in the Karnali Province of north-western Nepal. Previously Muchu was a separate Village Development Committee which merged with other neighbouring villages and restructured as Namkha rural council. Muchu was thus divided into two wards (ward no. 4 & 5). At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 917 persons living in 164 individual households. and at the time of 2011 Nepal census it had 916 individuals.