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

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.
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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.
- 01Annapurneshwari 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 - 02Vadeshwaram 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 - 03Kannur 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
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What Wikivoyage says to see
1,000 coconut island (Ayiram Thengu Dweep) (Mungam). Ancient Catholic Church, Thavam (7 km).
- 01Ancient St
Martin de Pores Hospital (Mission Hospital), Cherukunnu (3 km).
- 02Oliyankara Juma Masjid
Mattool road (6 km).
- 03Anna Poorneshwari Temple
- 04Puthiya Bhagavathy Temple
Chunda.
- 05Vettakkoru Makan Temple
Chunda.
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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.
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Where to eat
Jayanthi Hotel, Mattool Road.
- 01Kairaly Hotel
Narayanans Hotel, Annapoorna Temple Road.
- 02Super Restaurant
Kannapuram Bridge.
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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 → Kannapuram97 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · ₹700–880
- Mangaluru → Kannapuram115 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · ₹830–1,030
- Coimbatore → Kannapuram211 km · quickest by road, 5h 49m · ₹1,830–2,280
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- Get aroundAutorickshaws are very cheap at ₹15 per km.
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Next door to Kannapuram
- Pappinisseri Grama PanchayatGram Panchayat in Kannur district of Kerala, India3.8 km
- Kalliasserivillage in Kannur District, Kerala, India4.8 km
- Azhikode Northhuman settlement4.8 km
- Cherukunnuvillage in Kannur District, Kerala, India4.5 km
- Punnakkulangaravillage in Kerala, India5.4 km
- Madayi Grama PanchayatGram Panchayat in Kannur district of Kerala, India2.3 km