Udumbanchola
Udumbanchola | |
|---|---|
Village/Taluk | |
Udumbanchola Location in Kerala, India Udumbanchola Udumbanchola (India) | |
| Coordinates: 9°53′58″N 77°10′53″E / 9.899356°N 77.18148°E | |
| Country | India |
| State | Kerala |
| District | Idukki |
| Government | |
| • Type | Taluk |
| • Body | Udumbanchola Grama Panchayat |
| Area | |
| • Village | 31.79 km2 (12.27 sq mi) |
| • Taluk | 656.66 km2 (253.54 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Village | 10,064 |
| • Taluk | 283,369 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Malayalam, English |
| • Minority | Tamil |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| Postal code | 685554 |
| Vehicle registration | KL-69 |
Udumbanchola is a taluk in Idukki district of the Indian state of Kerala. This is in the high ranges. Nedumkandam is the major town and capital of Udumbanchola taluk. Mathikettan Shola National Park is located in Udumbanchola.
In July 2019, a team of historians found new menhir, perhaps the largest-ever recorded in Kerala, on the Pothamala hills in Udumbanchola taluk on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border. According to them, Pothamala hills housed hundreds of cobbled stone structures, pointing to the existence of a structured graveyard of a prehistoric civilization.