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

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.
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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.
- 01Kannur 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
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Getting to Chengala
- Airports
- Mangaluru (IXE), 53 km · Kannur (CNN), 85 km · Calicut (CCJ), 181 km
- Mangaluru → Chengala51 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · ₹395–495
- Kannur → Chengala78 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · ₹580–720
- Calicut → Chengala160 km · quickest by road, 3h 58m · ₹1,170–1,460
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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.
- 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.
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Next door to Chengala
Chengala is 50 km from Mangaluru, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.