Teekoy
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Teekoy തീക്കോയി |
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| Town/village | |
 Teekoy
 Teekoy
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| Coordinates: 9°42′0″N 76°47′0″E / 9.70000°N 76.78333°ECoordinates: 9°42′0″N 76°47′0″E / 9.70000°N 76.78333°E | |
| Country |
 India
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| State | Kerala |
| District | Kottayam |
| Area | |
| • Total | 27.19 km2 (10.50 sq mi) |
| Population (2001) | |
| • Total | 10,272 |
| • Density | 380/km2 (980/sq mi) |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Malayalam, English |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| PIN | 686580 |
| Telephone code | 04822 |
| Vehicle registration | KL-35 |
| Nearest city | Erattupetta |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Pathanamthitta |
| Literacy | 95% |
| Website | www |
Teekoy (Malayalam: തീക്കോയി) is a South Indian village, situated in the eastern part of Kottayam district in Kerala state, between the towns of Vagamon, Erattupetta, and Thalanadu.
Teekoy is a typical Kerala village, which is a mixture of the features of both midland countryside and the Malanad hill area, enveloped in greenery with a clean and unpolluted atmosphere. Teekoy as a village is medium- sized but as a panchayat, is quite long, covering many areas like Aniyilappu, Mavadi, vellikulam, Thalanad, Adukkom etc. and stretching about 20 kilometres reaching up to the Wagamon area, at about three thousand feet above sea level. This place is known for its agriculture and landscape. It is full of hills and valleys in the middle of which flows the Meenachil river (made famous by Arundhati Roy's novel, The God of Small Things).
Large scale settlement in Teekoy began more than 100 years ago. It has resemblance to a tropical rain-forest area with all kinds of trees like teak, jackfruit, etc., found in the Western Ghats region growing profusely besides coconut, rubber, arecanut and other crops. It is a very fertile area. The first large rubber plantation in India was established in Teekoy. Here most of the people are farmers and they cultivate rubber, elachi, ginger, cardamom, clove, nutmeg, turmeric, pepper, cashew and other spices. Considerable variety of medicinal plants also grow here which have been used in making the traditional home remedies. Most of the people are Christians, but there are also Muslims and Hindus. There are some third or fourth generation Tamil people, descendants of workers who came to work in the rubber plantations in Teekoy many decades ago. Before Independence in 1947 Teekoy had some English people who had set up rubber plantation here. As a legacy of the colonial era a cantiliver bridge still connects the two banks of the Meenachil river two kilometres above Teekoy town.
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