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Nallur (Tamil: நல்லூர்; Sinhala: නල්ලූර්) is an affluent suburb in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. It is located 3 km south from Jaffna city centre. [ 1 ] Nallur is most famous for Nallur Kandaswamy temple , one of Sri Lanka's most sacred place of pilgrimage for Sri Lankan Hindus.
Kiliyur Falls is a waterfall on the Periyaaru river in the Servarayan hill range in the Eastern Ghats, Tamil nadu, India. The waters overflowing the Yercaud Lake fall 91 m (300 ft) into the Kiliyur Valley. [1] People need to walk down 200–250 steep steps from the nearest road to reach this waterfall. [citation needed]
Yercaud, also spelt Erkad, [note 1] is a town and hill station in Salem District in Tamil Nadu, India. Located in Servarayan Hills in the Eastern Ghats , it is situated at an altitude of 1,515 m (4,970 ft).
The Periyaaru river originates from Pattipadi, Yercaud and is fed from many small streams along the way as it flows westwards. It creates the Kiliyur waterfalls at Kiliyur before reaching the Vattakaadu Eri weir. The river then continues to flow westwards, before joining the Sarabanga river.
According to the 2011 census of India, Nallur had a population of 8714 people and was classified as a gram panchayat.This included 4393 males and 4321 females. The village had an overall literacy rate of 72.68% with male literacy and female literacy standing at 80.85% and 64.37%, respectively.
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Nallur has an average literacy rate of 78%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 82%, and female literacy is 74%. In Nallur, 11% of the population is under 6 years of age. As of 2011 census, Nalloor Town Panchayat has population of 17,989 of which 8,985 are males while 9,004 are females as per report released by Census ...
As per folklore, when Hindu god Vishnu visited the earth, he planted his feet on the hills. As the people could not stand his weight, they yelled ‘yelo’ in fear (‘kili’ in Tamil), which later became Yelagiri.