Rahateshwar is a village in the

Devgad Devgad is a taluka in Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra India consisting of 98 villages. It is located on the Arabian Sea in the coastal Konkan region of Maharashtra, south of Mumbai. Devgad is known globally for its exports of locally grown ...

Taluka A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

of the Sindhudurg district in the state of

Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...

, India. The village is situated on the bank of a creek of the

Arabian Sea The Arabian Sea ( ar, اَلْبَحرْ ٱلْعَرَبِيُّ, Al-Bahr al-ˁArabī) is a region of the northern Indian Ocean bounded on the north by Pakistan, Iran and the Gulf of Oman, on the west by the Gulf of Aden, Guardafui Channel ...

and is the location of a temple dedicated to the Hindu deity

Shiva Shiva (; sa, शिव, lit=The Auspicious One, Śiva ), also known as Mahadeva (; ɐɦaːd̪eːʋɐ, or Hara, is one of the principal deities of Hinduism. He is the Supreme Being in Shaivism, one of the major traditions within Hindu ...

. It belongs to

konkan division The Konkan division is one of the six administrative divisions of Maharashtra state in India. It comprises the northern and central portions of the greater Konkani region, which were absorbed into Maharashtra owing to the States Reorganisati ...

. Rahateshwar village is best known for its Alphonso mangoes and Cashew nuts. The village lies from Devgad. It is approximately from

Kunkeshwar Kunkeshwar (ISO15919: Kuṇakēśvar) is a village in Maharashtra, India situated on the bank of Arabian Sea. There is a temple for the Hindu deity Shiva in the village. Geography Situated along the sea in the Sindhudurg district, Kunkeshwar i ...

while the nearest railway station is at Nandgaon, some away.

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* http://www.mapsofindia.com/villages/maharashtra/sindhudurg/devgad/rahateshwar.html * http://kadams-kadams.blogspot.com/2010/01/kadams-true-marathas.html?m=1 Villages in Sindhudurg district {{Sindhudurg-geo-stub

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