Kavanur
Kavanur is a village in the Ariyalur taluk of Ariyalur district, Tamil Nadu, India. Kavanur has about 55,000 residents.- Type: Locality with 55,000 residents
- Description: Village in Ariyalur District, Tamil Nadu, India
- Also known as: “Kovur” and “Kundrathur”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chembarambakkam Lake and Kundrathur Murugan Temple.
Chembarambakkam Lake
Reservoir
Photo: Tagooty, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chembarambakkam Lake is located in Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu, India, about 25 km from Chennai. It is the biggest of the two important rain-fed reservoirs, the other one being the Puzhal Lake, that supply drinking water to Chennai city.
Kundrathur Murugan Temple
Hindu temple
Kundrathur Murugan Temple is a Hindu temple located in Kundrathur, a suburb of Chennai in the Kancheepuram district of Tamil Nadu. According to Hindu mythology, Lord Subramaniar stayed on the hill during his travels from Tiruporur to Tiruttanigai.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Anakaputhur and Kundrathur.
Anakaputhur
Suburb
Anakaputhur is a neighborhood in the city of Chennai Tambaram, situated within the Chennai Metropolitan Area, Tamil Nadu, India. It is located next to Pammal on the western side. Anakaputhur is situated 6 km east of Kavanur.
Kundrathur
Town
Kundrathur is a suburb located in the Chennai Metropolitan Area and the headquarters of Kundrathur taluk in Kanchipuram District. It is the birthplace of Sekkizhar, a well-known poet-saint who authored the Periyapuranam.
Poonamallee
Town
Photo: PlaneMad, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Poonamallee is a western suburb of Chennai, India under the Chennai Metropolitan Area. It was historically called Pushpagirimangalam, later renamed in Tamil as Poovirundhavalli, and now colloquially called as Poondhamalli. Poonamallee is situated 7 km northeast of Kavanur.
Kavanur
- Category: village in India
- Location: Kundrathur, Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Uzbek—“Kavanur” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Kavanur”
- Bulgarian: “Каванур”
- Cebuano: “Kavanur”
- Dutch: “Kavanur”
- Hindi: “कवनुर”
- Ladin: “Kavanur”
- Malayalam: “കാവനൂർ”
- South Azerbaijani: “کاوانور”
- Swedish: “Kavanur”
- Tamil: “காவனூர்”
- Telugu: “కవనూరు”
- Uzbek: “Kavanur”
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