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Other Name:
Quilon
District:
Kollam
State:
Kerala
Country:
India
Languages Spoken:
Malayalam, English, Hindi, and Tamil
Best Time To Visit:
August To March
Long Distance Code:
+91-474
Importance:
International Access:
Thiruvananthapuram International Airport
Area:
2579
Location:
Kollam is situated about 71 km. north of Thiruvananthapuram and is linked by rail, road and backwater transport. The town edges with the famous Astamudi Lake.
Description:
Quilon or Kollam is fairly important for the State's trade and commerce and is the center of the country's cashew trading and processing industry. It is also an important hub for the State's marine products industry, with the port of Neendakara being the center for travelers and ice plants. For all its natural gifts of wide rivers, dominant hills and forest, lakes and plains, there is the throb of a vibrant industrial activity that combines with equanimity the wonders of the modern age with the traces of a bygone era. Quilon which is a veritable Kerala in miniature is gifted as it is with Kerala's very representative features - sea, lakes, plains, mountains, rivers, streams, backwaters, forest, vast green fields and tropical crop of every variety both food crop and cash crop.