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Kannapuram

Kannapuram is a census town and grama panchayat in Kannur district of North Malabar region in the Indian state of Kerala.

Kannapuram
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The place

Kannapuram is a census town and grama panchayat in Kannur district of North Malabar region in the Indian state of Kerala. It is located 15 km (9.3 mi) northwest of district headquarters Kannur and 7.5 km (4.7 mi) southeast of Pazhayangadi on the Pappinisseri-Pilathara KSTP road.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kannapuram

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
    Annapurneshwari Temple, Cherukunnu

    Annapoorneshwari Temple is a Hindu temple in Kannur, Kerala. The deity is worshipped as Annapurneshwari, the goddess of food.

    3 km · historic mother goddess temple in Kerala · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Vadeshwaram Temple

    Vadeshwaram Temple is a Shiva temple located at Aroli in the Kannur district of Kerala, India. Vadeshwaram is one among the 108 ancient Shiva temples in Kerala.

    4.3 km · Hindu temple in Kerala, India · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    5 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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

1,000 coconut island (Ayiram Thengu Dweep) (Mungam). Ancient Catholic Church, Thavam (7 km).

  1. 01
    Ancient St

    Martin de Pores Hospital (Mission Hospital), Cherukunnu (3 km).

  2. 02
    Oliyankara Juma Masjid

    Mattool road (6 km).

  3. 03
    Anna Poorneshwari Temple
  4. 04
    Puthiya Bhagavathy Temple

    Chunda.

  5. 05
    Vettakkoru Makan Temple

    Chunda.

From Wikivoyage: Kannapuram, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

Birdwatching @ Madayi Rocks, Madayippara (Near Payangadi). Enjoy the river views (from Padiyil, Kavinisseri and Kunnanangadu hills.). Mattoo Estuary, Mattool South (5 km). Spectacular silent beaches. You must devout a lot of time as the area is quite big. Make sure you look at maps.google.com to familiarize this place before going. Once the map is with you, the place is little more than spectacular.

From Wikivoyage: Kannapuram, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

Jayanthi Hotel, Mattool Road.

  1. 01
    Kairaly Hotel

    Narayanans Hotel, Annapoorna Temple Road.

  2. 02
    Super Restaurant

    Kannapuram Bridge.

From Wikivoyage: Kannapuram, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Kannapuram

Airports
Kannur (CNN), 25 km · Calicut (CCJ), 116 km · Mangaluru (IXE), 119 km
Stations
Valapattanam railway station, 5.4 km · Kannapuram railway station, 1.8 km
  • Calicut → Kannapuram
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · ₹700–880
  • Mangaluru → Kannapuram
    115 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · ₹830–1,030
  • Coimbatore → Kannapuram
    211 km · quickest by road, 5h 49m · ₹1,830–2,280
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kannapuram

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundAutorickshaws are very cheap at ₹15 per km.

From Wikivoyage: Kannapuram, 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
    NelliyampathyIN

    7 ways of moving, 26 sources

    218 km
  2. 02
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    282 km
  3. 03
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    290 km
  4. 04
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    295 km
  5. 05
    GokarnaIN

    7 ways of moving, 14 sources

    307 km

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

Around it

Next door to Kannapuram