Thenkalam
Thenkalam, officially called Tenkulam, is a village in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu, India.

Thenkalam, officially called Tenkulam, is a village in the Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu, India. It lies about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) from the city of Tirunelveli and about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from Sankarnagar, a suburb of Tirunelveli which lies on the way to Madurai on National Highway 44.
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Getting to Thenkalam
- Airports
- Thiruvananthapuram (TRV), 93 km · Cochin (COK), 206 km · Tiruchirappalli (TRZ), 243 km
- Thiruvananthapuram → Thenkalam90 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · ₹1,040–1,300
- Kochi → Thenkalam201 km · quickest by road, 5h 46m · ₹1,750–2,190
- Tiruchirappalli → Thenkalam247 km · quickest by road, 5h 12m · ₹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 Thenkalam
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 Thenkalam. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundOne can also use auto rickshaws and taxis to travel in the city.
From Wikivoyage: Tirunelveli, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.
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Next door to Thenkalam
Thenkalam is 10 km from Tirunelveli, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- SankarnagarVillage in Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu, India2.6 km