Kuttappuzha is a revenue village and postal code in

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, located approximately 1.3 kilometres north of the town centre. The revenue village was formed by bifurcating the Thiruvalla revenue village in 1985. The name Kuttapuzha is also used to refer to areas under the Thiruvalla R.S. (689101) postal code. Kuttapuzha is the location of the headquarters of the

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History

Kuttappuzha used to be a village and a gram panchayat. Due to development and urbanisation, the gram panchayat was later merged with the Thiruvalla municipality. However, the revenue village was not merged and continues to exist independent of the Thiruvalla revenue village.

Politics

Kuttappuzha is a part of the

Pathanamthitta Lok Sabha constituency Pathanamthitta Lok Sabha constituency is a Lok Sabha constituencies in Kerala state in southern India. It is a newly formed constituency in the Central Travancore region of Kerala for the election of a member of the Lok Sabha. The district, wh ...

. Anto Antony is the current Member of Parliament.

Geography

Kuttappuzha has an average elevation of around 37m above sea level. Low-lying paddies drained by the

Manimala River Manimala River or Manimalayar is a 92km long river which flows through South and Central Kerala. The river used to be wrongly considered as a tributary of Pamba River before satellite maps became popular, but this was proved incorrect. Manimala d ...

lie on its westernmost and easternmost boundaries. The fields drained by the Manimala in Kizhakken Muthoor flood during the monsoons. In 2003, an artificial lake (Believers Church Lake) with an area of around 31,000 sqm. was constucted in the Belivers Church campus in Chumathra.

References

Villages in Pathanamthitta district Villages in Thiruvalla taluk {{Pathanamthitta-geo-stub