Koorachundu/Koorachund is a village towards the north east of Kozhikode district

Kozhikode district

Kozhikode District , formerly Calicut, is a district of Kerala state, situated on the southwest coast of India. The city of Kozhikode, also known as Calicut, is the district headquarters. The district is 38.25% urbanised...

 of Kerala

Kerala

or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....

 in India

India

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. This place is about 38 km from Kozhikkode city and lies in between the famous tourist spot Peruvannamuzhi

Peruvannamuzhi

Peruvannamuzhi or Peruvannamoozhy is a village in Kozhikode district, Kerala, India which is near the PERUVANNAMUZHI DAM over a river. It is known for tourism, wildlife and research on spice crops....

 and the hydro electric

Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity is the term referring to electricity generated by hydropower; the production of electrical power through the use of the gravitational force of falling or flowing water. It is the most widely used form of renewable energy...

 power generator station at Kakkayam in the Western Ghats.

Tourism

The Peruvannamuzhi irrigation reservoir stretches the length of Koorachund. There are many tourism sites in and around the reservoir.
The kakkayam damsite, teeming with exotic wildlife, offers excellent trekking and rock climbing opportunities.

Climate

Koorachund has a generally humid tropicalclimate with a very hot season extending from March to May. The average annual rainfall is more than 3500 mm.this is the highest rain fall region in Calicut district

Demographics

Christian

Christian

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s constitute majority of the population, followed by Muslim

Muslim

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 and Hindu

Hindu

Hindu refers to an identity associated with the philosophical, religious and cultural systems that are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. As used in the Constitution of India, the word "Hindu" is also attributed to all persons professing any Indian religion...

 communities respectively. The majority of the inhabitants are successors of, migrants from the Southern districts of Kerala(Mid-Travancore).

Educational institutions

The village is home to two high schools, St Thomas HS, Koorachund and St Mary's HS, Kallanode.