Candola is a village and

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in Ponda Sub-District,

North Goa district 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 ...

in the state of

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. It is located in the ''Novas Conquistas'' region of the state.Candola on Google maps

History

Candola was founded by the Portuguese, in 1783, after Raja Bahadur Khem Savant III from the Kingdom of Sawantwadi ceded its lands to

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, in order to receive military help against the Kingdom of Kolhapur.

Geography

The

Mandovi River The Mandovi (International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA: ) or Mahadayi (International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA: ), formerly known as the Rio de Goa, is a river described as the lifeline of the Indian state of Goa. The Mandovi and the Zuari River, Zua ...

flows to through village's East and North, separating it from the village of

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. Another waterbody - the

Cumbarjua Cumbarjua, is an island and town within the Mandovi River in Goa. It is situated to the east of Goa's capital Panjim at a distance of 20 kilometres. It is one of 6 major islands between the Mandovi and Zuari, the others being: * Ilhas de Goa, * ...

Canal, which is a

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of the Mandovi, flows on its North-Western border, separating it from the island of

St Estevam St Estevam (''Santo Estêvão'') is an estuarine islet in the Tiswadi ''taluka'', Goa state, India. St Estevam is commonly referred as ''Jūvã'' (Isle) and has earned the monicker ''Šākêchô Jūvõ''—the island of vegetables—famed for ...

. There is a bridge over River, connecting it to the inner parts of Goa, and another over the canal, connecting it to the island.

References

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