Kotagiri


Kotagiri is a hill station and a municipality in the Nilgiris district of the Indian state, Tamil Nadu. The Nilgiri hills have been the traditional home of the "Kota" tribes. The name 'Kota-giri' itself means 'mountains of the kotas'. Kotagiri was known in the past as 'Kota-keri' or 'Kota-gherry', the 'street of Kotas'. The town has developed around numerous knolls and valleys. It is one of the largest hill stations in the Nilgiri Mountains. Located at an average elevation of 1,950 m, Kotagiri is quietly tucked away in the Nilgiris and used to be one of the summer resorts of the Madras Presidency. The town was discovered in the year 1819 by John Sullivan when he came to a village called Dhimbatty to the north of Kotagiri. Kotagiri enjoys the third coldest climate next to Ooty and Kodaikanal in South India.

Demographics

India census, Kotagiri second grade Municipality has a population of 28,207, of which 13,607 are males while 14,600 are females. The population of children aged 0–6 is 2,340, which is 8.30% of the total population of Kotagiri. In Kotagiri, the Female Sex Ratio is 1073 against state average of 996. Child Sex Ratio is 945 compared to the Tamil Nadu state average of 943. The literacy rate of Kotagiri city is 86.79% — higher than state average of 80.09%. The male literacy rate is around 93.55%, while the female literacy rate is 80.57%.

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Schools

There are a large number of Badaga villages and Sri Lankan Tamil settlement colonies surrounding Kotagiri town.
#VillagesAdministrative DivisionPopulation
1HittakkalKotagiri8,284
2AracodeKotagiri781
3DenadKotagiri8,284
4HallimoyarKotagiri225
5JackanaraiKotagiri4,602
6KadinamalaKotagiri407
7KallampalayamKotagiri1,691
8KengaraiKotagiri6,820
9KodanadKotagiri4,153
10KokkodeKotagiri147
11KonakaraiKotagiri7,511
13NaduhattyKotagiri10,278
14NandipuramKotagiri172
15NedugulaKotagiri13,071

Climate