Aluva (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Aluva is a suburb of Kochi/Cochin City in Kerala state, southern India and a municipality in Ernakulam District. It is one of the most industrialised areas in Kerala, though most of the factories are actually situated in the newly minted town Kalamassery. It is famous for the Aluva Sivarathri festival at Manal Puram.Nearly a month long celebrations including carnivals are set up in the vast area of manal puram during the shiva rathri season (sand bank) on the banks of Periyar River. Aluva serves as a transit point to the following areas in Greater Cochin - Angamaly to the North, Kalamassery to the south, North Paravur to the west and Perumbavoor to the east.