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Chitvel
Sign in to savethumb|Obulavaripalle–Krishnapatnam railway Tunnel at chitvel thumb|Yellama Raju Cheruvu .Chitvel Chitvel is a small town in Tirupati district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located in Chitvel mandal of Tirupati in the Rayalaseema Region. Chitvel has India's longest electrified railway tunnel between Chitvel and Rapur, 6.6 km long. This line connects Obulavaripalli-Krishnapatnam port and opened by vice president M. Venkaiah Naidu on Aug 21, 2019.This is the main railway line in this area.
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- Instance of
- village in India
- Country
- India
- Population
- 8943
- Area
- 845
- Elevation
- 132
- Households
- 2166
- Dialing code
- 08566
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- postal code
- 516104
- male population
- 4414
- female population
- 4529
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thumb|Obulavaripalle–Krishnapatnam railway Tunnel at chitvel thumb|Yellama Raju Cheruvu .Chitvel Chitvel is a small town in Tirupati district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located in Chitvel mandal of Tirupati in the Rayalaseema Region. Chitvel has India's longest electrified railway tunnel between Chitvel and Rapur, 6.6 km long. This line connects Obulavaripalli-Krishnapatnam port and opened by vice president M. Venkaiah Naidu on Aug 21, 2019.This is the main railway line in this area.
Sights and attractions around chitvel is Gundalakona, a regionally famous Lord Shiva temple and Guttamaneru Dam thumb|Gundalakona waterfalls
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chitvel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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