Ottapalam is a developing town in the Ottapalam Taluk in the Palakkad district, state of Kerala, India.[3] Ottapalam was declared as one of the 18 urban areas in Kerala as an AMRUT city[4] Chinakathoor Pooram, an event held every year at Chinakkathoor Temple, is one of the famous festival in Kerala.Ottapalam is located at 10.77N 76.38E.[6] It has an average elevation of 54 metres . This place was originally part of the Valluvanad Swaroopam dynasty.[7] Valluvanad was an erstwhile late medieval feudal state in present state of Kerala in South India extending from the Bharathapuzha River in the south to the Pandalur Mala in the north during their zenith in the early Middle Ages. On the west, it was bounded by the Arabian Sea at the port Ponnani and on the east by Attappadi Hills. According to local legends, the last Later Chera ruler gave a vast extension of land in South Malabar to one of their governors, Valluvakkonithiri and left for a hajj. The Valluvakkonithiri was also given last Later Chera ruler's shield , and already in 1793 management of the district had to be resumed as the chief and his family fled to Travancore.
Cochin , Thiruvananthapuram , Kozhikode , Trichur , Kottayam , Munnar , Ernakulam , Attingal , Mannarghat , Adimaly , Manjeri , Peermedu , Minicoy , Kannur , Adoor