Thengapattanam
Thengapattanam, named after dense coconut grooves, is a major trade and tourism centre in the painkulam panchayath along the coastal plains of Kanyakumari district.
Thengapattanam, named after dense coconut grooves, is a major trade and tourism centre in the painkulam panchayath along the coastal plains of Kanyakumari district. Thengapattanam, once part of Travancore and later Kerala, was added to Tamil Nadu on 1 November 1956 along with some parts of today's Kanniyakumari District.
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Worth seeing in and around Thengapattanam
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.
- 01Parthasarathy temple, Parthivapuram
Parthasarathy Temple, also spelled Parthasarathi Temple, is a 9th-century Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu in Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu, India. Spread over 2.5 acres, the temple is notable for the extensive records about it that have been discovered in Huzur Plates of Kollam.
3.9 km · 9th-century Hindu temple with Vedic school · Wikipedia
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Getting to Thengapattanam
- Airports
- Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 39 km · Cochin (COK), 229 km
- Stations
- Colachel Seaport, 2.1 km
- Kochi → ThengapattanamTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Coimbatore → ThengapattanamTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Tiruchirappalli → ThengapattanamTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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No local-transport research exists yet for Thengapattanam
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 Thengapattanam. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Thengapattanam
Thengapattanam is 37 km from Thiruvananthapuram, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- ChinnathuraiVillage in Kanniyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India4.3 km
- NithiravilaiVillage in Kanniyakumari District, Tamil Nadu, India5 km
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