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Mavelikkara

Mavelikkara is a municipality in Alappuzha district of Kerala, India.

Mavelikkara
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The place

Mavelikkara is a municipality in Alappuzha district of Kerala, India.

Mavelikara is situated approximately 43 km south of Alappuzha, the district headquarters, and about 121 km north of Thiruvananthapuram, the state capital. It lies roughly 33 km west of Pathanamthitta, another district headquarters in proximity. Mavelikara is also equidistant from the district headquarters of Alappuzha, Kottayam, and Kollam. As per the 2011 Indian census, Mavelikkara has a population of 26,421 people, and a population density of 2,088/km2 (5,410/sq mi).

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mavelikkara

4 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
    Puliyur Mahavishnu Temple

    The Thripuliyoor Mahavishnu Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu and located in Puliyoor, Alappuzha District, Kerala, South India. Constructed in the Kerala style of architecture, the temple is glorified in the Nalayira Divya Prabandham, the early medieval Tamil canon of the Alvar saints from the 6th–9th centuries CE. It is one of the 108 Divya Desams dedicated to Vishnu, who is worshipped as Mayapiran/Thripuliyoorappan.

    5.5 km · building in India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Thrikkuratti Mahadeva Temple, Mannar

    Mannar Thrikkuratti Mahadeva Temple an ancient Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva is situated on the banks of the Pampa river at Mannar of Alappuzha in Kerala state in India. The presiding deity of the temple is Shiva, located in main sanctum sanatorium, facing East.

    2.7 km · temple in India · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Pattambalam

    Kurattikadu Pattambalam Devi Kshethram or Kurattikadu Pattambalam Devi Temple is a Devi Temple in Mannar, Kerala, India. The main ritual of the temple is the Anpoli Vazhipadu during Anpoli Areeppara, the most important event at the temple, an annual 18-day festival from Medam 10th to 27th.

    5.3 km · Hindu temple in Alappuzha district, Kerala · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Bishop Moore College

    Bishop Moore College is an aided college in Mavelikkara, Alappuzha, Kerala, India, affiliated with the University of Kerala. The college is ranked 62nd among colleges in India by the National Institutional Ranking Framework in 2024.

    2.9 km · Aided college 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 Mavelikkara

Airports
Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 96 km · Cochin (COK), 100 km · Coimbatore (CJB), 203 km
Stations
Mavelikara railway station, 3.1 km
  • Thiruvananthapuram → Mavelikkara
    96 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · ₹720–900
  • Kochi → Mavelikkara
    82 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · ₹650–810
  • Coimbatore → Mavelikkara
    199 km · quickest by road, 5h 27m · ₹1,830–2,280
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mavelikkara

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inTaxi and auto rickshaws were available all around.
  • Get inBuses and auto rickshaws are the most convenient mode of transportation.

From Wikivoyage: Chennithala, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2023-10.

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

    6 ways of moving, 16 sources

    70 km
  2. 02
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    77 km
  3. 03
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    112 km
  4. 04
    KanthalloorIN

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    126 km
  5. 05
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    128 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mavelikkara

Mavelikkara is 43 km from Kollam, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.