Kadaperi is a neighbourhood in

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Tambaram Tambaram is a city located within the Chennai Metropolitan Area in the Indian State of Tamil Nadu. The city is governed by Tambaram City Municipal Corporation. Etymology Tambaram is an ancient town referred to as Taamapuram in an inscrip ...

. With a population of around 2000 people, Kadaperi is close to the Madras Export Processing Zone, which is the first

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in Chennai. ''Pachai Malai'' grassland and lakes are present in the area. The area is one of the 163 notified areas (megalithic sites) in the state of Tamil Nadu.

Etymology

The name comes from ''Kada'' (in Tamil), meaning door or gateway and ''eri'' meaning lake. Thus, it comes to mean the "gateway lake" in Chennai.

Transport links

Sanatorium Railway station, a bus station and an

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station are close by. It is just away from the Tambaram Bus Stand and Railway Station. Kadaperi is a junction for most of the buses from the city to the rest of Tamil Nadu.

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