Canacona
Canacona, historically known as Kanvapura, is a city and a municipal council in the district of South Goa, Goa state, India. The Canacona taluka includes Patnem, Chaudi, Poinguinim, Loliem-Polem, Agonda, and Gaumdongre. Chaudi is the headquarters of its taluka.Photo: Srahulbose, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 12,400 residents
- Description: city in Goa, India
- Also known as: “Advota”, “Chauri”, “Chauri Town”, “Kankon”, and “Kanvapura”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Canacona railway station and Patnem Beach.
Canacona railway station
Railway station
Photo: Saurabh Shetty, CC BY 3.0.
Canacona Railway Station is a small railway station in South Goa district, Goa. It serves Canacona, a sub-district in the extreme southernmost end of Goa.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chaudi and Palolem.
Chaudi
Suburb
Chaudi is a town in the South Goa district of the state of Goa, India. It is located approximately two kilometres from the city of Canacona.
Palolem
Photo: Martin Frey, Public domain.
Palolem is a village in South Goa, India. Palolem has one of the most beautiful beaches in all of Goa. It is a natural bay surrounded by lofty headlands on either sides, resulting in a calm, idyllic sea with a gently sloping bed which allows you to walk up to 100 m out from the beach.
Poinguinim
Village
Poinguinim is a village in the Canacona taluka administrative region of Goa, India, near the Goa-Karnataka border, and close to the Cotigao Wildlife Sanctuary. Poinguinim is situated 5 km southeast of Canacona.
Canacona
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Canacona, South Goa, Goa, Western India, India, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
15.00691° or 15° 0′ 25″ northLongitude
74.05706° or 74° 3′ 25″ eastPopulation
12,400Elevation
31 metres (102 feet)Open location code
7J7P2344+QROpenStreetMap ID
node 3253815062OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1268022Wikidata ID
Q5029212
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Canacona” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Canacona”
- Bengali: “কানাকোনা”
- Bishnupriya: “কানাকোনা”
- Cebuano: “Kānkon”
- Chinese: “恰纳乔纳”
- Czech: “Canacona”
- Dutch: “Canacona”
- French: “Canacona”
- Goan Konkani: “Kannkonn”
- Hebrew: “קנאקונה”
- Hindi: “कंवपुरा”
- Hindi: “काणकोण”
- Italian: “Canacona”
- Kannada: “ಕಾಣಕೋಣ”
- Ladin: “Canacona”
- Malay: “Canacona”
- Newari: “कनकोना”
- Newari: “काणकोण”
- Portuguese: “Canácona”
- Spanish: “Canacona”
- Swedish: “Kānkon”
- Tamil: “கனகோனா”
- Telugu: “కన్వపుర”
- Telugu: “కేనకోన”
- Vietnamese: “Canacona”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Civil And Criminal Court and Canacona Fire Station and Emergency Station.
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