World / India / Tamil Nadu / Kalakkad, 3 km from center Coordinates: 8°30'48"N   77°32'47"E

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களக்காடு (Kalakad)


KALAKAD is small beautiful village situated at the foothills of western ghats and is blessed with a rich agricultural heritage history due to which it changed many hands starting from Pandyas to Nayakas to Nawabs to Cheras and finally to the British till 1947.

For more details visit www.groups.yahoo.com/group/kalakad and also www.kalakad.org.

And whoever placed the MARVELOUS SKETCH OF THE TEMPLE WITH FIELDS BACKGROUND is requested to contcat the yahoo group/Kalakad site owner by visiting, as all the villagers would like to thankfully know about the history of this rare art work in detail. Thank you

Initially the reserve consisted of two adjacent wildlife sanctuaries. The area of the Kalakad Reserve was declared a Tiger sanctuary in 1962 and notified as a sanctuary in 1976. The Kalakad and Mundanthurai wildlife sanctuaries were made into a single Tiger reserve in 1996.

projecttiger.nic.in/kalakad.htm photo by dr.manickavasagam. vallioor
S. Abdul Raheem
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place comments:
35 months ago S. Abdul Raheem   +4
Kalakad is under Tirunelveli District and actually it is the tourist place and I wish to describe the following: -

This Reserve is situated in the south Western Ghats of India. It is bound by forests in west, north and south and by villages in the east. The Western Ghats is among the 18 world biodiversity hotspots. Agasthiarmalai (1681 mtrs) which falls within the core zone of the Reserve is the 3rd highest peak in South India. Part of Agasthyamalai hills in the core of the Reserve is considered one of the five centres of plant diversity and endemism in India (IUCN). The topography is undulating.
This is the only area of Western Ghats which has longest raining period of about 8 months,and it is the only non-dipterocarp evergreen forest in the region.It is floristically very different from other sites.

The rich forests of the Reserve form the catchment area for 14 rivers and streams. Among them the Tambraparani, Ramanadi, Karayar, Servalar, Manimuthar, Pachayar, Kodaiyar, Kadnar, Kallar form the back-bone of the irrigation network and drinking water for people of Tirunelveli, Turicorin and part of Kanyakumari district. Sever major dams - Karaiyar, Lower Dam, Servalar, Manimuthar, Ramanadi, Kadnanadi and Kodaiyar - owe their existence to these rivers.

35 months ago P.SheikMydeen   +2
It's my own village.actually i am staying at nagercoil but most of my relatives are in there.Its a vrey beautiful village.If you reach kalakad immediately you see many monkeys since its hill area.and one big temple is there.
34 months ago abdul wahab m   +4
kalakad....this is aslo a city of excellance
33 months ago Muthu Kumar Yadhav   0
33 months ago Muthu Kumar Yadhav   +3
Kalakad is my village.It is a city of excellence.Many of tourist places is in there
33 months ago Mahadevan   +1
A nice please indeed with lots of pleasant sights. I was travelling from Tirunelveli to Nagercoil and decided to go via Kalakkad - simply because my mother had told me once that her grandfather was from Kalakkad. I landed at the bus stop and took a rick to the Pachiar dam.

The view of the mountain was breathtaking. In the month of March, I could see from a distance a waterfall - as a long white line from a distance.

A place worh seeing.
32 months ago Dhinesh   +3
32 months ago Dhinesh   +2
I have been living in kalakad since 1992, becase that is the year in which i born.My full name is M.Dhinesh panneer. Kalakad is the only place which gives sufficient rainfall,normal heat,normal coolness,etc.
My friend Pradheep who is also a native of kalakad is now studyng in madras and getting practice from Cricket academy.It is sure that he will become a cricketeer.My aim is to become a politician and to serve this area by laying good roads,etc,.
Kalakad will give birth to many such citizens like Tagore bharathiyar ABDUL KALAM
,.
The old name of Kalakad Is KALANDHAI MANAGAR
32 months ago Pradeep   +3
Kalakad is a beautiful city
31 months ago vinoth   +3
ya.kalakad is beautiful village.
28 months ago Kumaran   0
Mr.Abdul... Please provide the possible trekk routes and contact, Stay information of the Kalakad. it will be helpful, if you there when we came for trekking

REgards

Kumaran
Geologist
27 months ago madasamy   0
kalakad has ,many beautful area.it have not water problem.
23 months ago V.Elangovan   +1
A big salute to our Perumal Sir, a great Teacher of Govt. Hr. Sec . School- Kalakad
23 months ago Mani.S.S   +1
The history of Kalakad, though more than 1000 years old, is not fully and properly known. As per very recent findings of experts who inspected the big temple here, the earlier names have been found as " Cholakula vallipuram". Attemps are being made now to conduct major repairs to the Rajagopuram of the temple. For more details you can write to Bakthar peravi, 34/82 Big street, Kalakad-627501 or mail to to "kalakadssmani@aol.com "
19 months ago S SURESH   +1
hai i am suresh s/o a sankaran chettiar

I AM LIVING IN
KALAKAD LAST 39YEARS
KALAKAD IS A VERY LOVING PLACE,
KALAKAD IS A VERY PEACEFUL&BEAUTYFUL CITY.
19 months ago M.Kannan,Kottai   +2
Hai all

Our village is very good place in our dist. Come and visit all

13 months ago N M Jinnaa   +2
My native place is kalakkad and i am really proud that i belong to that lovely place. Now I am in chennai but I want to go back to kalakkad because that place has a lot of lovely memories in my mind. When I took my wife to Mundanthurai forest she was totally impressed and happy. I am trying to buy a land there but somehow iam not able to.

13 months ago PONNIAH MANOHAR   +1
MY NETIVE PLACE SADAYAPURAM IS LONG IN 13KM IN KALAKAD.
I LOVE IN MY NETIVE PLACE . THE SMALL VILLAGE OF SIVANTHI PURAM IS VERY BEAUTIFUL OF NATURAL VILLAGE AND NICE PEOPLE IN THE NEARST OF KAKAKAD DAM.
DEAR NATURAL LOVERS PLS. COME AND VIST IN KAKALAD.
10 months ago anitha   0
kalakad is a beautiful area
10 months ago   +2
kalakad... when u utter this name the next thing that strikes ur mind is those greenish gardens and the paddy fields that surmounts this village.it indubitably a tourist place worth to be visited
9 months ago BT   +1
NICE PLACE
8 months ago Issac Kirubakaran   +1
When i seems the MAP really amazing .. God gave us a wonderful nice LAND we never get any where in the WORD .. Full of Green land Such a Great .. :)
8 months ago Subbiah [Thoppu St]   0
Kalakad , Which means Peace
7 months ago   0
இய‌ற்கை அன்னையின் பிற‌ப்பிடம்
5 months ago shafims sannathi street   0
kalakad is nice place.
5 months ago san1989   -1
it's my most lovable place.our "KALAKAD" is a wonderful place of TIRUNELVELLI district of my place kalakad
4 months ago SURESH   0
IAM LIVING IN PATHAI

VERY BEATIFUL PLACE

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