Pallikaranai Marsh

Pallikaranai Marsh is a freshwater marsh in the city of , . It is situated adjacent to the , about 20 kilometres south of the city centre, and has a geographical area of 80 square kilometres.
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  • Type: Wetland
  • Description: freshwater marsh in the city of Chennai, India
  • Also known as: “Pallikaranai Sadhuppunilam”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Velachery and Perungudi railway station.

Railway station
Photo: Simply CVR, CC BY 2.0.
The MRTS Station is a ground level station on the Chennai MRTS railway line in . It is located near the junction of Main Road and Inner Ring Road in . The station is built on the northern banks of Pallikaranai wetland.

Railway station
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Perungudi is a railway station on the Chennai MRTS. It serves the neighbourhood of , including localities such as Indira Nagar, Park Avenue and Tansi Nagar. It is located 1.3 km from the Perungudi Lake.

Railway station
Photo: Ganeshk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Taramani is a railway station on the Chennai MRTS in , India. Located off MGR Main Road in Taramani, it exclusively serves the Chennai MRTS.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include South Chennai and Velachery.

Photo: PlaneMad, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a posh new area of south of the Adyar River. It is home to the city's growing IT hub along Rajiv Gandhi Salai, often nicknamed the IT Expressway.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood of Chennai. It is located in the southern part of the Chennai city sharing borders with in the north, Taramani in the east, in the south-east, Pallikaranai in the south, in south-west, in the west and north-west.

Town
is a zone of Chennai corporation, and an urban node in in Guindy division in the state of , . It is surrounded by in the north and east, in the south, in the south-west and Parangimalai in the north-west.

Pallikaranai Marsh

Latitude
12.9651° or 12° 57′ 55″ north
Longitude
80.2333° or 80° 14′ 0″ east
Open location code
7M42X68M+38
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1353938223
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­wetland
Wiki­data ID
Q7127876
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Satellite Map

Discover Pallikaranai Marsh from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Japanese to Tamil—“Pallikaranai Marsh” goes by many names.
  • Japanese: “パッリカラナイ湿地”
  • Malayalam: “പള്ളിക്കരണൈ നീർത്തടം”
  • Tamil: “பள்ளிக்கரணை சதுப்புநிலம்”

Localities in the Area

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