Rangaswamy Peak and Pillar is a rocky column in

Kotagiri Kotagiri or Kothagiri is a taluk and a Panchayat town in The Nilgiris District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is the third largest hill station in the Nilgiri hills. Kotagiri is located at . It has an average elevation of . Demographi ...

, The Nilgiris,

Tamil Nadu Tamil Nadu (; , TN) is a States and union territories of India, state in southern India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, tenth largest Indian state by area and the List of states and union territories of India ...

. It is located at a distance of 20 km from Kotagiri.

Rangaswamy Peak

Located at , the height of Rangaswamy Peak is above and it is visible from Kodanad View Point. This is the most sacred place for the

Irulas Irula, also known as Iruliga'','' are a Dravidian ethnic group inhabiting the Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka. A scheduled tribe, their population in this region is estimated at around 200,000 people. People of Irula ethnicit ...

who hold it as the home of the deity Rangaswamy. It is also known as Rangabottu and hosts an annual harvest-fertility festival. It was in this region that a DC-3 Air India plane carrying the statistician Abraham Wald crashed on 13 December 1950.Incident record
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Rangaswamy Pillar

Rangaswamy Pillar is found on the north west side of Rangaswamy Peak. The height of the pillar is about 400 feet.

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Tourist attractions in Nilgiris district Mountains of Tamil Nadu Mountains of the Western Ghats {{Nilgiris-geo-stub

Rangaswamy Peak

Rangaswamy Pillar

See also

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