Kuruvattur is a village in

Kozhikode district Kozhikode (), or Calicut district, is one of the 14 districts in the Indian state of Kerala, along its Southwestern Malabar Coast. The city of Kozhikode, also known as Calicut, is the district headquarters. The district is 67.15% urbanised. ...

in the state of

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. It is 14 km (8.7 mi) from

Kozhikode Kozhikode (), also known in English as Calicut, is a city along the Malabar Coast in the state of Kerala in India. It has a corporation limit population of 609,224 and a metropolitan population of more than 2 million, making it the second la ...

(Calicut) city. The village shares its borders with

Chelannur Chelannur is a village in Kozhikode district in the state of Kerala, India.The village is currently ruled by the United Democratic Front (UDF) Demographics India census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and ca ...

Kakkodi Kakkodi is a Panchayath in Kozhikode district of Kerala. The Panchayath borders Kozhikode corporation on one side and the panchayaths kuruvattur, Chelannur, thalakkulathur and Elathur, on the other sides. Population As per the 2001 census ...

, Madavoor,

Kunnamangalam Kunnamangalam is a growing census town located about 14 km east of Kozhikode (Calicut) city on the Calicut - Bangalore National Highway (NH 766 , Kozhikode - Kollegal). Nearby places are Koduvally, Mukkam, Chathamangalam, and Kattangal. ...

and

Kozhikode corporation The Kozhikode Corporation, is the municipal corporation that administers the city of Kozhikode (Calicut), Kerala. Established in 1962, it is in the Kozhikode parliamentary constituency. The first mayor was H. Manjunatha Rao. Its four assembly c ...

. The village comes under Kunnamangalam block and has 18 wards. Parambil bazar and Payambra are the prominent places in Kuruvattoor. The junction Pottamuri in Kuruvattur serves connecting roads to Parambil Bazar, Palath, Kakkodi and Kozhikode city. The village is encouraging arts and sports, especially football. Many clubs and local bodies create events for boosting cultural aspects. Chandrodayam Vayanasala is the library for Kuruvattur. Parambil bazar is a main business area in kuruvatoor grama panchayath. This area is rich with Nature.Southern parambilbazar , Moozhikal etc....... are famòus natural centers

Education

The first educational institution was established as payambra elementary school in the year 1885. Now the school is upgraded to higher secondary school which serves the payambra, kuruvattoor and nearby regions. The panchayath has a literacy rate of 93.12% which is much higher than national average.

Climate

Kuruvattoor features a tropical monsoon climate. It has a highly humid tropical climate with high temperatures recorded from March to May. A brief spell of pre-monsoon Mango showers hits the city sometime during April. However, the primary source of rain is the South-west monsoon that sets in the first week of June and continues until September. The village receives significant precipitation from the North-East Monsoon that sets in from the second half of October through November.

Demographics

India

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...

, Kuruvattur had a population of 28,285 with 13,676 males and 14,609 females.

Notable residents

A. Santha Kumar A. Santha Kumar (1968/9 – 16 June 2021) was an Indian Malayalam, Malayalam language playwright and screenplay writer from Kerala, Kerala state, South India. He won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Drama in 2010 for the work ''Maram Peyyun ...

-(1969-2021) playwrighter and screenplay writer

References

Villages in Kozhikode district Kozhikode north {{Kozhikode-geo-stub