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Choornikkara

Choornikkara is a census town located in Aluva in the Ernakulam district of Kerala, India.

The place

Choornikkara is a census town located in Aluva in the Ernakulam district of Kerala, India. It is also the headquarters of the Choornikkara Gram Panchayat.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Choornikkara

9 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
    Aluva Mahadeva Temple

    Aluva Mahadeva Temple is an ancient Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva, and situated on the bank of the Periyar River at Aluva manappuram in suburban Kochi. The presiding deity of the temple is Lord Shiva, located in the main Sanctum Sanctorum, facing east.

    3.7 km · shiva Temple, Kochi, Kerala, India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Chowara Chidambaraswamy Temple

    Chowara Chidambaraswamy Temple is located at Chowara in Ernakulam district. The presiding deities of north shrine are Shiva in the form of Nataraja, in the sanctum sanctorum facing east.

    3.2 km · Hindu temple in India · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Government Medical College, Ernakulam

    Government Medical College, Ernakulam is one of the medical colleges in the state of Kerala situated at Kalamassery, Kochi. It was a government-owned institution established by the Co-operative Academy of Professional Education under the Department of Co-operation, Government of Kerala, established in 1999.

    5.6 km · medical college in the state of Kerala · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Little Flower Church, Kaprassery

    Little Flower Church, Kaprassery is a Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, in the village of Kaprassery, India, close to the Cochin International Airport. It is dedicated to Saint Thérèse of Lisieux.

    5.3 km · building in India · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Marthanda Varma Bridge

    Marthanda Varma Bridge is a twin-bridge located in the city of Aluva, in the Ernakulam district, Kerala, India. The bridges lie on the NH 544 connecting the banks of the Periyar river.

    4 km · bridge in Aluva Built by Marthanda Varma Ilayaraja in 1942 · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Mangalapuzha Bridge

    The Mangalapuzha bridge is a bridge in Aluva, Kerala, India. This bridge connects Desom and Aluva town.

    5.4 km · bridge near Aluva connecting Desom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St. Mary's Church Thrikkunnathu

    Thrikkunnathu St. Mary's Orthodox Syrian Church, is a church that is part of the Angamaly Diocese of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.

    2.7 km · church in Kerala, India · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    National University of Advanced Legal Studies

    The National University of Advanced Legal Studies, commonly referred to as NUALS, is a public law school located in Kochi, India. Established by an Act of the Kerala Legislative Assembly in 2005, NUALS is one of the oldest National Law Universities in the country.

    4.8 km · state public university in Ernakulam, Kerala, India · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Sree Narayana Gurukulam College of Engineering

    Nattika is a small village in Thrissur district of Kerala state, South India, on the Arabian Sea on the west coast of Thrissur. Conolly Canal is the eastern border of Nattika.

    6 km · Engineering College in Kerala · 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 Choornikkara

Airports
Cochin (COK), 6 km · Calicut (CCJ), 125 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 126 km
Stations
Aluva Railway Station, 2.9 km · Chowara railway station, 4.1 km · Aluva KSRTC bus station, 3 km
  • Calicut → Choornikkara
    143 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · ₹1,200–1,500
  • Coimbatore → Choornikkara
    123 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · ₹1,070–1,340
  • Thiruvananthapuram → Choornikkara
    190 km · quickest by road, 4h 36m · ₹1,430–1,790
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Choornikkara

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get in{{marker|type |wikidata By ferry=== Aluva is one major stop for National Waterway 3, scheduled to open by August 2010 which connects to Thiruvananthapuram in south and Kottapuram (Thrissur) in north.

From Wikivoyage: Aluva, 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

    58 km
  2. 02
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    89 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    89 km
  4. 04
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    96 km
  5. 05
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    110 km

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

Around it

Next door to Choornikkara

Choornikkara is 19 km from Kanayannur, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • AluvaTown in Ernakulam district, Keralam, India2.6 km
  • Chovvaravillage in Ernakulam District, Kerala, India4.6 km
  • NedumbasseryGram panchayat and census town in Ernakulam district, Kerala, India4 km
  • VazhakulamSmall Town near Muvattupuzha5.6 km
  • Kaprasseryvillage in Ernakulam District, Kerala, India5.3 km
  • Edayappuramvillage in Ernakulam District, Kerala, India1.1 km