Kotagiri

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Kotagiri (Tamil: கோத்தகிரி Kōttakiri [ ko ː t ː əɡiɾi ] ) is a city in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is located at about 1,985 meters altitude in the Nilgiribergen, about 16 kilometers from Udagamandalam (Ooty ) and 20 kilometers from Kodanad. Kotagiri has about 28,000 inhabitants ( 2011 census ), is communal self-administered by the Panchayat system and is the namesake of the Taluk ( administrative region ) Kotagiri in the Nilgiris district. The name Kotagiri means "mountain of Kota " and refers to the tribal people of Kota, which located in the vicinity of the city.

Kotagiri is the oldest and third largest mountain resort in the Nilgiribergen (the other two are Ooty and Coonoor ). In the environment, especially tea plants are grown. The Governor ( District Collector) John Sullivan, a former secretary of the British East India Company, established in 1819, at the time of British colonial rule, in the nearby village Kannerimukku the first European house in the Nilgiribergen, which today is, however, in a state of disrepair. Due to the charming landscape and the temperate climate of the place was then summer resort of the British rulers in the region.

Among the tourist attractions, the St. Catherine's waterfalls include (English: Catherine Falls, about eight miles out, on the road to Mettupalyam the branch to Aravenu ). The fed from the River Kallar Falls - the second highest in the Nilgiribergen - consist of two cascades, the upper 76 meters plunging into the depths. Regional means of the waterfall Geddhehaada Halla, he has received after the wife of Scottish M. David Cockburn its English name, is said to have brought the coffee plant cultivation by Kotagiri ( but was again set the later). Impressive also are different views of the mountain peaks and mountain roads in the canyons, and the Longwood Shola Forest, a three-kilometer distant, primeval mountain forest area.