Central Kerala
Ernakulam District
Aluva

Aluva

Aluva, formerly Alwaye, is the second largest town in Greater Kochi agglomeration and an important commercial town in Kerala. The town is famous its festivals, large river banks and temples.
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  • Type: Town with 23,700 residents
  • Description: urban area and municipality in Ernakulam district, Kerala, India
  • Also known as: “Alwaye”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Aluva railway station and Thrikkunnathu Seminary.

Railway station
Photo: Ronyrajan95, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an NSG–3 category Indian railway station in Thiruvananthapuram railway division of Southern Railway zone. It is a railway station mainly catering to the passengers from the northern part of the city of in the Indian state of .

Place of worship
Thrikkunathu Seminary is a historic seminary under the ownership of Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church in Aluva, .Owing to an ownership dispute between the factions, the Methran Kakshi and the Bava Kashi, the seminary was closed in December 1977.

Metro station
Photo: Athulvis, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Aluva is an elevated metro station serving as the northern terminal of the Kochi Metro. It is located besides the Aluva flyover near the Aluva market and the banks of the Periyar river.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Thottakkattukara.

Suburb
is a locality in the Aluva, Kerala, India. It is connected through all types of transportation. It is located on the banks of Aluva Puzha. It is just located near the Manappuram Mahadeva Temple at Manappuram, Aluva.

Aluva

Latitude
10.1078° or 10° 6′ 28″ north
Longitude
76.3569° or 76° 21′ 25″ east
Population
23,700
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
Open location code
7J2R4954+4P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1880437827
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1278941
Wiki­data ID
Q588793
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Aluva” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ألوفا”
  • Asturian: “Aluva”
  • Bengali: “আলুয়া”
  • Bengali: “আলুৱ”
  • Bishnupriya: “আলুৱ”
  • Catalan: “Aluva”
  • Cebuano: “Aluva”
  • Chinese: “阿魯法”
  • Chinese: “阿鲁法”
  • Dutch: “Aluva”
  • French: “Aluva”
  • German: “Aluva”
  • Gujarati: “અલુવા”
  • Hindi: “अलुवा”
  • Hindi: “आलुवा”
  • Indonesian: “Aluva”
  • Italian: “Aluva”
  • Japanese: “アルヴァ”
  • Kannada: “ಅಲುವ”
  • Kannada: “ಅಲುವಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಆಲುವಾ”
  • Kashmiri: “الووا”
  • Korean: “알루바”
  • Malagasy: “Aluva”
  • Malay: “Aluva”
  • Malayalam: “Aluva Town”
  • Malayalam: “Aluva”
  • Malayalam: “ആലുവ”
  • Marathi: “अलुवा”
  • Marathi: “अल्वाये”
  • Minangkabau: “Aluva”
  • Newari: “अलुभा”
  • Newari: “आलुव”
  • Persian: “آلووا”
  • Portuguese: “Aluva”
  • Russian: “Алува”
  • Spanish: “Aluva”
  • Swedish: “Aluva”
  • Talysh: “Aluva”
  • Tamil: “ஆலுவா”
  • Telugu: “అలువా”
  • Urdu: “آلوا”
  • Urdu: “الووا”
  • Vietnamese: “Aluva”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Aluva”. Photo: Ranjithsiji, CC BY-SA 3.0.