Kerala Backwaters
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- Type: Lagoon
- Description: Water Bodies and Lagoons of Kerala, a southern state of India.
- Also known as: “Kerala backwaters”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Udayamperoor Ekadasi Perumthrikovil Temple and Chottanikkara Road railway station.
Udayamperoor Ekadasi Perumthrikovil Temple
Hindu temple
Photo: RajeshUnuppally, CC BY 3.0.
Udayamperoor Ekadasi Perumthrikovil Temple is an ancient Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva at Udayamperoor of Ernakulam District in Kerala state in India.
Chottanikkara Road railway station
Railway station
Chottanikkara Road railway station is a railway station in Ernakulam District, Kerala, and falls under the Thiruvananthapuram railway division of the Southern Railway zone, Indian Railways. It is located in the town of Kureekkad.
Hail Mary
School
Perumpilly, also Perumpally, is a village in Kanayannur taluk of Ernakulam district in Kerala state, south India. It is 22 km south-east of Ernakulam city.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Arookutty and Thiruvankulam.
Thiruvankulam
Village
Photo: Ssriram mt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Thiruvankulam is a census town in Thrippunithura municipality, in Ernakulam district, Kerala, India. The area is a part of the Kochi metropolitan area.
Kumbalam
Village
Photo: Mydreamsparrow, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kumbalam is a region of Kochi, in the state of Kerala, India, that includes Vembanad Lake. It is situated around 9 km from Vytilla Junction.
Kerala Backwaters
- Category: body of water
- Location: Kerala, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Tamil—“Kerala Backwaters” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيرلا باك ووترس”
- Bhojpuri: “केरल के बैकवाटर”
- Cebuano: “Kerala Backwaters”
- Chinese: “kerala backwaters”
- Chinese: “喀拉拉邦回水”
- Chinese: “喀拉拉邦回水區”
- Dutch: “Backwaters”
- Finnish: “Keralan takavedet”
- French: “Backwaters”
- German: “Backwaters”
- Hindi: “केरल अनूपझीलें”
- Italian: “Backwaters”
- Japanese: “ケララバックウォーター”
- Japanese: “ケララ大水郷地帯”
- Kannada: “ಕೇರಳ ಹಿನ್ನೀರು ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
- Luxembourgish: “Backwaters”
- Malay: “Air mati Kerala”
- Malayalam: “കേരള കായൽ പരപ്പുകൾ”
- Malayalam: “കേരളത്തിലെ കായലുകൾ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kerala backwater”
- Norwegian: “Kerala backwater”
- Persian: “مردابهای کرالا”
- Portuguese: “Remansos de Querala”
- Russian: “Заводи Кералы”
- Sanskrit: “केरळस्य सागरपूर्वजलप्रवासः”
- Tamil: “கேரள உப்பங்கழிகள்”
- “केरल के बैकवाटर”
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