Puthuvely is a small village in

Kottayam district Kottayam (), is one of 14 districts in the Indian state of Kerala. Kottayam district comprises six municipal towns: Kottayam, Changanassery, Pala, Erattupetta, Ettumanoor, and Vaikom. It is the only district in Kerala that neither borders ...

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South C ...

state,

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. It is a border village of Kottayam district.

Economy

The village's economy depends mainly on crop plantations like

rubber Rubber, also called India rubber, latex, Amazonian rubber, ''caucho'', or ''caoutchouc'', as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds. Thailand, Malaysia, a ...

cocoa Cocoa may refer to: Chocolate * Chocolate * ''Theobroma cacao'', the cocoa tree * Cocoa bean, seed of ''Theobroma cacao'' * Chocolate liquor, or cocoa liquor, pure, liquid chocolate extracted from the cocoa bean, including both cocoa butter and ...

pepper Pepper or peppers may refer to: Food and spice * Piperaceae or the pepper family, a large family of flowering plant ** Black pepper * ''Capsicum'' or pepper, a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae ** Bell pepper ** Chili ...

ginger Ginger (''Zingiber officinale'') is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or ginger, is widely used as a spice and a folk medicine. It is a herbaceous perennial which grows annual pseudostems (false stems made of the rolled bases of ...

and foreign income from workers abroad. People from different communities live very peacefully here.

Hindus Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ...

, Knanaya Catholics of http://www.syromalabarchurch.in/parish.php?id=4174 and Orthodox and Jacobites are the main communities. Most of village consists of a single large family and its several branches. Major source of the village's income is from agriculture.

Location

Puthuvely is situated on the MC road, 4 km south of

Koothattukulam Koothattukulam is a town and municipality situated in Muvattupuzha taluk, towards the south east corner of Ernakulam district in Kerala State, India. It lies at the junction of three districts: Ernakulam, Kottayam Kottayam () is a ...

and 3 km north of Monippally. There are roads to Areekara, Veliyannoor, Uzhavoor, Elangi from here.

Schools

It has a Government Higher Secondary School named OVT HSS PUTHUVELY and a Primary School and a college named

Mar Kuriakose Arts and Science College Mar Kuriakose College, is an arts and science College in Kerala, India situated in Puthuvely 5 kilometers south of Koothattukulam and 32 kilometers north of Kottayam. The college was established in 2010. It is affiliated to the Mahatma Gandhi U ...

(Affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University Kottayam ) run by Divine Educational & Charitable Trust Puthuvely

Village products

It is also famous for it
toddy shop
named Puthuvely Kallu Shapu. It is also famous for its toddy from Coconut.

References

Villages in Kottayam district {{Kottayam-geo-stub