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Dam Attractions In Nagercoil

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Nagercoil is a town in the southernmost Indian district of Kanyakumari and a municipality and administrative headquarters of Kanyakumari District in Tamilnadu. The town is situated close to the tip of the Indian peninsula, locked with the Western Ghats on three sides. For 735 years it was a central part of the erstwhile Travancore kingdom and later Kerala State, till almost a decade after India's Independence from Britain in 1947. In 1956, it was partitioned from Kerala and merged with Tamil Nadu. Called the Granary of Travancore, Nagercoil not only served as the food basket of Kerala, but was also one among the important spice trading centres in the e...
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  • 1. Manimuthar And Papanasam Dams Tirunelveli
    The Manimuthar Dam is located in Manimutharu 50.8 kilometres away from Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu, India. It the biggest reservoir of the Tirunelveli district. This dam was built in 1958 near Singambatti, by the then Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Kamaraj and K T Kosalram MP to prevent the mixing of Rainwater with the Bay of Bengal during the rainy season. In this dam we can hold water up to 118 feet. The dam is 5,511 million cubic feet. The total length of the dam is 3 km It irrigated Around 65,000 acres of areas in the northern part of the Nanguneri Taluk and Thisayanvilai and Southern Veeravanallur, Karispalpatti which are not irrigated by Pachaiyarai in Tirunelveli district.
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