Yelagiri
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Yelagiri (), also spelled Elagiri, is a hill station located in Tirupathur district of Tamil Nadu, India. Located at an altitude of , it forms a part of the Eastern Ghats mountain range. The hills consist of 14 hamlets spread across an area of .
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The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Cities and towns in Tirupathur district, Hill stations in Tamil Nadu and Mountains of Tamil Nadu.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- hill station
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Tirupattur district
- Elevation
- 1110.6
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Image
- Yelagiri Lake2.jpg
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Yelagiri (), also spelled Elagiri, is a hill station located in Tirupathur district of Tamil Nadu, India. Located at an altitude of , it forms a part of the Eastern Ghats mountain range. The hills consist of 14 hamlets spread across an area of .
== Etymology == 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. As per Hindu beliefs, Vishnu came to the hills later to marry goddess Lakshmi, who is known by the name "Yelagiri Thayar" and the region came to be known as Yeloshwaram.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yelagiri” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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2 mapped locations