Puthalam
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- Settlement.name
- Puththalam,
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Tamil Nadu
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- Location in Tamil Nadu, India
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Tamil Nadu
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Kanyakumari
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- Metric
- Settlement.population_total
- 13,073
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
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- Languages
- Settlement.demographics1_title1
- Official
- Settlement.demographics1_info1
- Tamil
- Settlement.timezone1
- IST
- Settlement.utc_offset1
- +5:30
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Tamil Nadu
- Contains
- Kanniyakumari district
- Area
- 11.52
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
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- postal code
- 629602
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Puththalam is a Panchayat town in the Agastheeswaram taluk, Kanniyakumari district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
It lies between the Manakudy estuary and the Indian Ocean. The estuary is famous for its biodiversity and migrating birds. The wildlife department has recently introduced mangrove plantations. Puthalam is also known for its salt pans, which have existed since the British colonial rule. The recent tsunami has devastated the surrounding fishing villages. It has a 200-year-old Christian church constructed by Ringel Taube, a German missionary. There is also a 200-year-old higher secondary school, L.M.P.C. Higher Secondary School.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Puthalam” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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