Puthuvely is a small village in

Kottayam district Kottayam (), is one of 14 districts in the Indian state of Kerala. Kottayam district comprises six municipal towns: Kottayam, Changanassery, Pala, Erattupetta, Ettumanoor, and Vaikom. It is the only district in Kerala that neither borders the A ...

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state,

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. It is a border village of Kottayam district.

Economy

The village's economy depends mainly on crop plantations like

rubber Rubber, also called India rubber, latex, Amazonian rubber, ''caucho'', or ''caoutchouc'', as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds. Thailand, Malaysia, an ...

cocoa Cocoa may refer to: Chocolate * Chocolate * ''Theobroma cacao'', the cocoa tree * Cocoa bean, seed of ''Theobroma cacao'' * Chocolate liquor, or cocoa liquor, pure, liquid chocolate extracted from the cocoa bean, including both cocoa butter and ...

pepper Pepper or peppers may refer to: Food and spice * Piperaceae or the pepper family, a large family of flowering plant ** Black pepper * ''Capsicum'' or pepper, a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae ** Bell pepper ** Chili ...

, ginger and foreign income from workers abroad. People from different communities live very peacefully here.

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, Knanaya Catholics of http://www.syromalabarchurch.in/parish.php?id=4174 and

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and Jacobites are the main communities. Most of village consists of a single large family and its several branches. Major source of the village's income is from agriculture.

Location

Puthuvely is situated on the

MC road The Main Central Road, better known as MC Road is the arterial State Highway starting from Kesavadasapuram in Trivandrum city and ends at Angamaly, a suburb of Kochi city in Ernakulam District, in the state of Kerala, India. It is designated ...

, 4 km south of

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and 3 km north of

Monippally Monippally is a small village in Kottayam district, Kerala, South India. Formerly known as 'Mohanappally' (Beautiful Place) or 'Munippally' (Temple of ''Muni''s, Sage or Saints). In her yesteryears, Monippally was a famous ginger cultivation a ...

. There are roads to Areekara, Veliyannoor, Uzhavoor, Elangi from here.

Schools

It has a Government Higher Secondary School named OVT HSS PUTHUVELY and a Primary School and a college named Mar Kuriakose Arts and Science College (Affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam ) run by Divine Educational & Charitable Trust Puthuvely

Village products

It is also famous for it
toddy shop
named Puthuvely Kallu Shapu. It is also famous for its toddy from Coconut.

References

Villages in Kottayam district {{Kottayam-geo-stub