The Uru, or "Big Boat", is made in Beypore, a village in south Calicut, Kerala, in southwestern India. A couple of boat-building yards can be found near the Beypore port.[1] These have been used by the Arabs and Greeks since ancient times as trading vessels, and even now, urus are being manufactured and exported to Arab nations from Beypore. It is built of several types of wood, the main one being teak. The teak was taken from Nilambur forests in earlier times, but now imported Malaysian teak is used.