Kodayar secret falls kanyakumari

The forests in Kanyakumari District are about 75 million years old. Of the total district area of 1671.3 km², government forests occupy an area of 504.86 km² which comes to about 30.2 percent of the geographical area of the district.^[21] The forests of the district are administered through the Kanyakumari Forest Division, with headquarters at Nagercoil, the capital of Kanyakumari District

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The forests in Kanyakumari District has numerous high trees and large plants. Especially, the Kanyakumari forests has highly grown sandal trees, teak trees, rosewood trees, Wild Jack trees. There are also plenty of herbal plants. These plants, if used properly, can cure many diseases. Several private estates are in the forests. pepper and cloves are grown in large numbers in such estates. Totally the district's forests has some 600 varieties of large trees and another 3500 varieties of small trees.

The major river in the Kanyakumari district is Thamirabarani locally known as Kuzhithurai Aaru (Kuzhithurai River). This river has two major tributaries, Kodhayaru and Paraliyaru, with the Pechiparai Dam and Perunchani Dam, respectively, built across them. There are many tributaries for the Kodayar River of which Chittar I and Chittar II, with their dams, are the major ones. The origin of Tambaraparani River is in the Western Ghats and the river confluences with Laccadive Sea near Thengapattanam, about 56 kilometres (35 mi) west of Kanyakumari town.