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Kakkanad
Place in Kerala, India

Kakkanad

Kakkanad is a suburb and major urban center in the eastern part of the Kochi metropolitan area in the Indian state of Kerala.

It serves as the administrative headquarters of Ernakulam district and is one of Kerala's major information technology and business hubs. Located about 10 km east of central Kochi, Kakkanad is home to major technology parks, including Infopark and SmartCity Kochi, as well as several government institutions and educational establishments. It also houses multiple industrial projects including the Cochin Special Economic Zone and KINFRA.

How locals move

Getting around Kakkanad the local way

  • Get in{{marker|type |wikidata By ferry=== Aluva is one major stop for National Waterway 3, scheduled to open by August 2010 which connects to Thiruvananthapuram in south and Kottapuram (Thrissur) in north.

From Wikivoyage: Aluva, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-07.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Ravi Dwivedi (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.