Cherpulachery

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Cherpulachery is a small and beautiful town in Palakkad District of Kerala state, south India. It has a holy Goddess temple (Puthanalkavu Bhagavathy ) and the Ayyapan kavu is well known. There is also the nearly 200 year-old Shivashetram with a very big temple water pond (Ambalakulam). Cherpulachery Sivan a famous drum player ("madhalam") was brought up in the town.Kalamandalam Gopalakrishnan was also hailed by here.He died on 27.2.2008 at his 58th age.

Nearest Places.

  • Thootha - Seven km towards west.
  • Pattambi - 17 km towards north west.
  • Ottapalam - 17 km towards north.
  • Perintalmanna - 17 km towards west.
  • Coimbatore - 101 km towards east.
  • Karalmanna - 3 km towards west
  • Palakkadu - 39 km towards east.
  • Mangode - 3.5 km towards east.
  • Vellinezhi - 6 km North East.
  • Kuruvattoor - 3 km East from vellinezhi
  • Shoraur - 18 km towards north west

[Festivals.]

   Puthanalkvu Kalavela (10/02/08)
   Puthanalkvu Pakalpooram (11/02/08)
   Iyappan kavu vilaku(ettam vilaku)
   Mangode kavu pooram - with distribution of decorated  30 to 35 elephants
   Thootha pooram - with decorated elephants (13-05-08)

[Banks.]

   Canara bank
   Cherpalacherry Co-operative bank
   State Bank of India
   State bank of Trivancore


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