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Karakonam

Karakonam is a town in Kunnathukal, Perumkadavila Block Panchayat, of Thiruvananthapuram district in the Indian state of Kerala.

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The place

Karakonam is a town in Kunnathukal, Perumkadavila Block Panchayat, of Thiruvananthapuram district in the Indian state of Kerala. It is located around 30 km from Thiruvananthapuram. It is home to the Dr.Somervell Memorial CSI Medical college

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Karakonam

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
    Andoor Kandan Sree Dharma Sastha Temple, Tholady

    Andoor Kandan Sree Dharma Sastha Temple is a Sastha Temple in south Kerala, India. It is 13 km east of Neyyattinkara and 32 km south-east of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

    1.7 km · Hindu temple in 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 Karakonam

Airports
Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 29 km · Cochin (COK), 214 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 294 km
  • Kochi → Karakonam
    199 km · quickest by road, 4h 54m · ₹1,590–1,980
  • Coimbatore → Karakonam
    292 km · quickest by road, 8h 11m · ₹2,720–3,400
  • Tiruchirappalli → Karakonam
    317 km · quickest by road, 7h 21m · ₹2,670–3,340
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Karakonam

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get in{{go | name | url | address 8.410410 | long from Kovalam | phone | hours | wikipedia Neyyattinkarastation1.jpg | wikidata=Q15262230 | lastedit=2026-05-16 | content By bus By taxi By auto-rickshaw=== In an auto-rickshaw ₹150-170 (per head) is a fair price.
  • Get inAdvice being if they are trying to rip you off go to leave for another rickshaw and they will often back down and offer you a fair price; if not, get in a different rickshaw.
  • Get aroundThe rate should be around ₹15 per kilometre on auto rickshaw but some drivers may try to overcharge up to ₹100 for 1 km.

From Wikivoyage: Kovalam, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-05.

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

    6 ways of moving, 16 sources

    117 km
  2. 02
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    128 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    185 km
  4. 04
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    200 km
  5. 05
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    204 km

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

Around it

Next door to Karakonam

Karakonam is 27 km from Thiruvananthapuram, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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