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Champakara

Champakara, Kottayam, Kerala, India, is a village in Kottayam District, 18 kilometres (11 mi) away from Kottayam in India.

Champakara
Champakara · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Champakara, Kottayam, Kerala, India, is a village in Kottayam District, 18 kilometres (11 mi) away from Kottayam in India. The State highway from Kottayam to Punaloor passes through the town. The name derived from the Malayalam word Sampal kara, or Sampath kara, which means "the land of prosperity."

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Champakara

2 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
    Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Kottayam

    Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology or Government Engineering College, Kottayam is a state-government-owned engineering college in the Indian state of Kerala, located 14 km away from Kottayam. The college was founded in 1991 by the Government of Kerala, and has been affiliated with the APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University since the latter was founded in 2015.

    3.5 km · Government engineering college in Kerala · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Nethalloor Devi Temple

    The Nethalloor Sri Bhagavathi temple is located near Karukachal, in the district of Kottayam, Kerala state, India. Changanasserry-vazhoor & Kottayam-Punalur state highways meet in Nethalloor junction; 19 km from Kottayam in Karukachal route and 16 km from Changanasserry in Vazhoor route.

    3.7 km · Hindu temple · Wikipedia

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Getting to Champakara

Airports
Cochin (COK), 73 km · Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 121 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 172 km
  • Kochi → Champakara
    63 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · ₹530–660
  • Thiruvananthapuram → Champakara
    120 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · ₹920–1,150
  • Coimbatore → Champakara
    169 km · quickest by road, 4h 50m · ₹1,590–1,980
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Champakara

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 Champakara. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAuto rickshaws and taxis are available at the station.

From Wikivoyage: Kallooppara, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

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

    6 ways of moving, 16 sources

    59 km
  2. 02
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    62 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    84 km
  4. 04
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    97 km
  5. 05
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    99 km

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

Around it

Next door to Champakara

  • Karukachaltown in Kottayam District, Kerala, India3.7 km
  • Moscowvillage in Kottayam District, Kerala, India1.8 km
  • Mammoodvillage in Kottayam District, Kerala, India3.7 km
  • Perumpanachyvillage in Kottayam District, Kerala, India3.7 km