Vattamkulam

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Vattamkulam is a village in Malappuram district of Kerala state, India.

Latitude 11.34 Degrees North. Longitude 76.3 Degrees East.

Vattamkulam is located near Edappal. A village in the fertile valley of the Bharatapuzha River, also known as the Nila River. It was a sleepy farming village until the 1970s, but during the Gulf Fever in Kerala it sent most of its able bodied men to the Gulf countries, and now almost every family has one or more men earning in the Gulf.

"Vattamkulam" literally means "Round Pond"

People at Vattamkulam have a good reading habit and the Grameena Vayanasala Vattamkulam is very popular locally.