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Town in Kerala, India

Chengala

Chengala is a town in the Kasaragod district of Kerala, India.

Chengala
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The place

Chengala is a town in the Kasaragod district of Kerala, India. It is situated about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) east of Kasaragod, between National Highway 66 and the Payaswini or Chandragiri River.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Chengala

One place 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
    Kannur University

    Kannur University is a multi-campus public university established in 1996 to provide development of higher education in Kasaragod, Kannur, and Mananthavady Taluk Of Wayanad districts of Kerala, India. It serves the region of North Malabar.

    4.1 km · state public university in Kannur, Kerala, 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 Chengala

Airports
Mangaluru (IXE), 53 km · Kannur (CNN), 85 km · Calicut (CCJ), 181 km
  • Mangaluru → Chengala
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · ₹395–495
  • Kannur → Chengala
    78 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · ₹580–720
  • Calicut → Chengala
    160 km · quickest by road, 3h 58m · ₹1,170–1,460
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Chengala

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundAutorickshaws charge ₹30 per km Buses charge ₹13 for every three km.
  • Get aroundTaxi - Comfortable air conditioned taxis and jeeps are available for ₹2,000 per day.

From Wikivoyage: Kasaragod, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    7 ways of moving, 14 sources

    241 km
  2. 02
    NelliyampathyIN

    7 ways of moving, 26 sources

    283 km
  3. 03
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    345 km
  4. 04
    HampiIN

    8 ways of moving, 18 sources

    349 km
  5. 05
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    353 km

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

Around it

Next door to Chengala

Chengala is 50 km from Mangaluru, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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