Chittarikkal is a town in
Vellarikundu Taluk in
Kasaragod district
Kasaragod ( (, , ; English: ''Kassergode'') is one of the 14 districts in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Its northern border Thalappady is located just 9 km south to Ullal, which is the southernmost portion of the major port city ...
in the state of
Kerala
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,
India
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.
It is also a ward of the East Eleri
Gram Panchayat. The town is sometimes referred to as Thomapuram, due to the name of the church and the nearby secondary school.
Demographics
As of the 2011 Indian
census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...
, Chittarikkal had a population of 15,152: 7,398 male and 7,754 female. The village had a land area of 3265 hectares containing 3726 households. The village had a literacy rate of 86%.
References
{{Kasaragod district
Nileshwaram area