Canca is a village located in the

North Goa North Goa district is one of the two districts that constitutes the state of Goa, India. The district has an area of , and is bounded by Kolhapur and Sindhudurg districts of Maharashtra state to the north and by Belgavi district of Karnatak ...

''taluka'' (sub-district) of

Bardez ''Bardez'' or ''Bardes'' ( IPA: ) is a ''taluka'' of the North Goa district in the Indian state of Goa. Etymology The name is credited to the Saraswat Brahmin immigrants who emigrated to the Konkan via Magadha plains in northern India. B ...

Location

It is located to the south-west of

Mapusa Mapusa () is a city in North Goa, India. It is situated 13 km north of the state capital of Panaji. The city is the headquarters of Bardez taluka. It is located on the main highway NH-17, linking Mumbai to Kochi. During Portuguese Indi ...

town, just on its outskirts. Surrounding Canca are Khorlim, Morod (both in Mapusa on its north and east respectively),

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to its south, and

Verla Verla at Jaala, Kouvola, Finland, is a well-preserved 19th-century mill village. Situated along the northern Kymi River, the mill, nearby power plants, and residential houses were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1996 due to its tes ...

to its west.

Locality, PIN, etc

Canca's PIN (postal index number) code is shared with Mapusa, 403507. It is not to be confused with another locality called Cansa, in the

Tivim Tivim pronounced Thivim, is a village in Nathivim in Bardez, in the North Goa district of Goa, India. It is an important gateway into North Goa as the home to the major railway station in North Goa. Tivim was also the ancestral village of the fi ...

area also in

, Goa.

Area

The village has an area of 81.09 hectares, according to the Goa Census of 2011.

Population

It has a total of 794 households, and its population comprises 3,551 persons, of whom 1,845 are male and 1,706 are female. Its under-six population comprises 398 children, of whom 205 are boys and 193 are girls.

References

Villages in North Goa district {{goa-geo-stub