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Village in Alappuzha district, Kerala, India

Aroor

Aroor is a fishing village on the northernmost part of the Alappuzha district, within Cherthala taluk of Kerala, India.

Aroor
Aroor · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Aroor is a fishing village on the northernmost part of the Alappuzha district, within Cherthala taluk of Kerala, India. It serves as a gateway to Kochi from Alappuzha. Aroor, surrounded by Vembanad, Kaithappuzha, and Kumbalangi backwaters, is known for its seafood export industry. The Aroor-Kumbalam Bridge is the second-longest bridge in Kerala.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Aroor

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Aquinas College, Edacochin

    Mahatma Gandhi University is a system of universities throughout the Indian state of Kerala. A number of institutes of higher learning can be found within this university system, including those focused on both Engineering and the humanities.

    3.8 km · Arts and Science College · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies

    The Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies is a university established by the Government of Kerala devoted to studies in fisheries and ocean sciences. The bill seeking to establish the university was passed by the Kerala Legislative Assembly on 30 December 2010.

    3.9 km · state public university in Ernakulam, Kerala, India · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Kannamaly Church, Ernakulam

    St. Antony's Forane Church is a historic Catholic Latin Church pilgrimage church located in Kannamaly, a coastal suburb of Kochi, in the Ernakulam district of Kerala, India.

    3.9 km · church building in Ernakulam district, India · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Aroor

Airports
Cochin (COK), 32 km · Calicut (CCJ), 145 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 152 km
  • Calicut → Aroor
    164 km · quickest by road, 4h 6m · ₹1,180–1,470
  • Coimbatore → Aroor
    146 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · ₹1,240–1,540
  • Thiruvananthapuram → Aroor
    169 km · quickest by road, 4h 3m · ₹1,270–1,580
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Aroor

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Aroor. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundApart from tourist houseboats, regular ferries operated by Kerala State Inland Navigation Company (KSINC) and traditional country-side canoes also operate in the region.

From Wikivoyage: Kerala Backwaters, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-07.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    NelliyampathyIN

    7 ways of moving, 26 sources

    84 km
  2. 02
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    100 km
  3. 03
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    104 km
  4. 04
    GaviIN

    6 ways of moving, 16 sources

    106 km
  5. 05
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    106 km

If you know how people move in Aroor – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Aroor

Aroor is 8 km from Kochi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Arookutty Grama PanchayatGram Panchayat in Alappuzha district of Kerala, India3.3 km
  • Kumbalangivillage in Ernakulam District, Kerala, India1.8 km
  • Kumbalamneighborhood in Kochi, Kerala, India2.7 km
  • Chandiroorvillage in Alappuzha District, Kerala, India3.6 km
  • Puliyanamvillage in Ernakulam District, Kerala, India1.9 km