Tiruvallur
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- Settlement.name
- Tiruvallur
- Settlement.nicknames
- Evvulur, Tiruevvulur, Tiruevvulkidanthan
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Tiruvallur HD Image.jpg
- Settlement.image_alt
- Veeraraghava Swami Temple (Thiruevvul)
- Settlement.image_caption
- Veeraraghava Swamy Temple's view from the temple tank
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Tamil Nadu
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Tiruvallur (Tamil Nadu)
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- 22px Tamil Nadu
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Tiruvallur
- Settlement.established_date
- 17th Century
- Settlement.named_for
- Veeraragava Temple
- Settlement.government_type
- Grade I Municipality
- Settlement.governing_body
- Tiruvallur Municipality
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Tiruvallur is a Town and Grade I municipality in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu in Chennai Metropolitan Area. It is located on the banks of Coovum river about from downtown Chennai (Madras) in the western part of the Chennai Metropolitan Area (CMA). It is a satellite town of Chennai and is the administrative headquarters of Tiruvallur District. The town is known for the Veeraraghava Swamy Temple, one of the 108 sacred shrines of Vaishnavites. The tank festival is held at a pond near this temple. A Shiva temple near this shrine which is popular among the locals. There is also a tall Viswaroopa Panchamukha Hanuman temple, where the murti is made of a single green granite stone.
Poondi reservoir, from which drinking water is drawn to Chennai city, is about from Tiruvallur. The neighborhood is served by Tiruvallur railway station of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. As of 2011, the town had a population of 54416.