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Pampanal Waterfalls

waterfalls in Kerala, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ122760997 ↗
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Pampanal Waterfalls is located in Kottayam district in Kerala, India. It is located near Manathoor on the Pala-Thodupuzha bypass route, approximately 42 km (26 mi) from Kottayam town and 15 km (9.3 mi) from Thodupuzha. The waterfall has three viewpoints and rushes over the rocks for a long distance, and falls 50 m (160 ft) below.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pampanal Waterfalls” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.