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Situated in the rich [[biodiversity]] of [[Western Ghats]], it is known for the [[Chandragiri Fort, Kerala|Chandragiri]] and [[Bekal Fort]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://keralaczma.gov.in/hearing/records/kasaragod/Draft%20CZMP%20Kasaragod%207.pdf|title=Draft Map|publisher=keralaczma.gov.in|date=2012|access-date=22 January 2021}}</ref> [[Chandragiri River]], historic [[Kolathiri|Kolathiri Raja]]s, natural environment of [[Ranipuram]] and [[Kottancheri Hills]], historical and religious sites like the [[Madiyan Kulom temple]], [[Madhur Temple]], [[Ananthapura Lake Temple|Ananthapuram Lake Temple]] and [[Malik Deenar Mosque]]. The historic hill of [[Ezhimala]] is located on the southern portion of [[Kavvayi Backwaters]] of [[Nileshwaram]].
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[[Robert Caldwell]] describes the extent of Malayalam in the 19th century as extending from Chandragiri ([[Chandragiri Fort, Kerala|fort]] and [[Chandragiri River|river)]] in the north to [[Neyyar (river)|Neyyar river]] beyond [[Thiruvananthapuram|Thiruvanantapuram]] in the south and from [[Malabar Coast]] in the west to [[Western Ghats]] in the east besides the inhabited islands of [[Lakshadweep]] in the [[Arabian Sea]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Caldwell |first=Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5PPCYBApSnIC |title=A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages |publisher=Asian Educational Services |year=1998 |isbn=978-81-206-0117-8 |pages=6, 16, 17–19, 20, 21–25, 31 |language=en |quote=Malayalam is spoken along the Malabar coast, on the western side of the Ghauts, or Malaya range of mountains, from the vicinity of Chandragiri (river and fort) near Mangalore, where it supersedes Canarese and Tuļu, to Trivandrum, where it begins to be superseded by Tamil. The people by whom this language is spoken in the native states of Travancore and Cochin, and in the East India Company's districts of Malabar and Canara, may be estimated at two and a half millions. (Pages 6, 16, 20, 31)}}</ref>{{refn|group=note|“Malayalam is spoken along the Malabar coast, on the western side of the Ghauts, or Malaya range of mountains, from the vicinity of Chandragiri (river and fort) near Mangalore, where it supersedes Canarese and Tuļu, to Trivandrum, where it begins to be superseded by Tamil. The people by whom this language is spoken in the native states of Travancore and Cochin,
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