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Cooum River

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The Cooum River is one of the shortest classified rivers draining into the Bay of Bengal. [1]

68 relations: Adyar River, Agave, Anna Salai, Arumbakkam, Azadirachta indica, Banyan, Bay of Bengal, Black wattle, Buckingham Canal, Chembarambakkam Lake, Chennai, Chennai Central railway station, Chennai district, Chennai Metro, Chennai Port, Chepauk, Chettupattu, Chintadripet, Choolaimedu, Chrysopogon zizanioides, Cymbopogon, Drainage basin, Effect of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on India, Egmore, Endosulfan, Ficus religiosa, Fort St. George, India, Greater Chennai Corporation, Indian mulberry, Kosasthalaiyar River, Leucaena leucocephala, Lindane, M. K. Stalin, M. Subramaniam, Madras High Court, Maduravoyal, Marina Barrage, Marina Beach, Millingtonia, Mogappair, Municipal solid waste, Mylapore, Napier Bridge, Nerkundram, Pithecellobium dulce, Poonamallee, Poondi reservoir, Ripon Building, Roman Empire, Sambandar, ..., San Antonio, Shaivism, Shiva, Silt, South India, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu, Tamil Nadu Government Multi Super Speciality Hospital, Terminalia catappa, Texas, The Island, Chennai, Thevaram, Tiruvallur district, Tiruvirkolam, University of Madras, Water management in Chennai, World Bank, 2005 Chennai floods. Expand index (18 more) »

Adyar River

The Adyar or Adayar, originating near the Chembarambakkam Lake in Kanchipuram district, is one of the three rivers which winds through Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu, India, and joins the Bay of Bengal at the Adyar Estuary.

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Agave

Agave is a genus of monocots native to the hot and arid regions of Mexico and the Southwestern United States.

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Anna Salai

Anna Salai, formerly known as St.

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Arumbakkam

Arumbakkam is primarily a residential locality in Chennai.

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Azadirachta indica

Azadirachta indica, commonly known as neem, nimtree or Indian lilac, is a tree in the mahogany family Meliaceae.

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Banyan

A banyan, also spelled "banian", is a fig that begins its life as an epiphyte, i.e. a plant that grows on another plant, when its seed germinates in a crack or crevice of a host tree or edifice.

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Bay of Bengal

The Bay of Bengal (Bengali: বঙ্গোপসাগর) is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean, bounded on the west and north by India and Bangladesh, and on the east by Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (India).

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Black wattle

Black wattle is the common name for a number of species of trees that are native to Australia, as listed below.

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Buckingham Canal

The Buckingham Canal is a long fresh water navigation canal, running parallel to the Coromandel Coast of South India from Kakinada in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh to Villupuram District in Tamil Nadu.

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Chembarambakkam Lake

Chembarambakkam lake, is a lake located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, about 25 km from Chennai.

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Chennai

Chennai (formerly known as Madras or) is the capital of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Chennai Central railway station

Chennai Central, erstwhile Madras Central, is the main railway terminus in the city of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.It is one of the most important hubs in the South.

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Chennai district

Chennai district, formerly known as Madras district or "Madarasapattinam", is a district in the state of Tamil Nadu, in India.

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Chennai Metro

The Chennai Metro is a rapid transit system serving the city of Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

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Chennai Port

Chennai Port, formerly known as Madras Port, is the third largest container port of India, behind the Nhava Sheva and Mundra port.

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Chepauk

Chepauk is a locality in Chennai (Madras), in India.

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Chettupattu

Chetput is a panchayat town in Tiruvannamalai district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India.

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Chintadripet

Chintadripet ('originally Chinna Thari Pettai) is a locality in Chennai, in India.

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Choolaimedu

Choolaimedu is a large residential and commercial locality in Chennai, Tamilnadu, India.

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Chrysopogon zizanioides

Chrysopogon zizanioides, commonly known as vetiver (derived from the Tamil: வெட்டிவேர் veṭṭivēr) is a perennial bunchgrass of the Poaceae family, native to India.

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Cymbopogon

Cymbopogon, better known as lemongrass, is a genus of Asian, African, Australian, and tropical island plants in the grass family.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water.

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Effect of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake on India

According to official estimates in India, 10,136 people were killed and hundreds of thousands made homeless when a tsunami triggered by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake near the Indonesian island of Sumatra struck the southern coast on 26 December 2004.

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Egmore

Egmore (தமிழ்: எழும்பூர்) is a neighbourhood of Chennai, India.

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Endosulfan

Endosulfan is an off-patent organochlorine insecticide and acaricide that is being phased out globally.

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Ficus religiosa

Ficus religiosa or sacred fig is a species of fig native to the Indian subcontinent, and Indochina.

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Fort St. George, India

Fort St George (or historically, White Town) is the first English (later British) fortress in India, founded in 1644 at the coastal city of Madras, the modern city of Chennai.

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Greater Chennai Corporation

The Chennai Municipal Corporation (officially the Greater Chennai Corporation), formerly known as the Corporation of Madras, is the civic body that governs the city of Chennai (formerly Madras), India.

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Indian mulberry

Indian mulberry may refer to.

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Kosasthalaiyar River

Kosasthalaiyar River, also known as Kortalaiyar, is one of the three rivers that flow in the Chennai metropolitan area.

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Leucaena leucocephala

Leucaena leucocephala is a small fast-growing mimosoid tree native to southern Mexico and northern Central America (Belize and Guatemala) and is now naturalized throughout the tropics.

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Lindane

Lindane, also known as gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane (γ-HCCH), gammaxene, Gammallin and sometimes incorrectly called benzene hexachloride (BHC), is an organochlorine chemical variant of hexachlorocyclohexane that has been used both as an agricultural insecticide and as a pharmaceutical treatment for lice and scabies.

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M. K. Stalin

Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin (Tamil pronunciation: Mu. Ka. Sṭāliṉ; born 1 March 1953) known as M. K. Stalin, is an Indian politician from Tamil Nadu and working president of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) political party.

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M. Subramaniam

M.

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Madras High Court

The Madras High Court is the high court of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Maduravoyal

Maduravoyal is a residential neighbourhood located in the west of Chennai, India.

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Marina Barrage

The Marina Barrage is a dam in Singapore built at the confluence of five rivers, across the Marina Channel between Marina East and Marina South.

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Marina Beach

Marina Beach is a natural urban beach in the city of Chennai (Madras), India, along the Bay of Bengal.

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Millingtonia

Millingtonia hortensis, tree jasmine or Indian cork tree, the sole species in the genus Millingtonia, is a tree native to South Asia & South East Asia.

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Mogappair

Mogappair (also known as Dr. J. J. Nagar) is a fast-developing residential neighborhood in north-western Chennai, India.

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Municipal solid waste

Municipal solid waste (MSW), commonly known as trash or garbage in the United States and rubbish in Britain, is a waste type consisting of everyday items that are discarded by the public.

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Mylapore

Mylapore is a cultural hub and neighborhood in the southern part of the city of Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, India.

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Napier Bridge

Napier Bridge is a bridge in Chennai (Madras), India, built over the Coovum River connecting Fort St. George with the Marina beach.

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Nerkundram

Nerkundram (நெற்குன்றம்) or Nerkunram is a census town located in Chennai City, Chennai district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Pithecellobium dulce

Pithecellobium dulce is a species of flowering plant in the pea family, Fabaceae, that is native to the Pacific Coast and adjacent highlands of Mexico, Central America, Saudi Arabia, and northern South America.

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Poonamallee

Poonamallee ('Punamalli' or originally Poovirundhavalli) is a neighbourhood located in the west of Chennai metropolitan city, India.

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Poondi reservoir

Poondi Lake or Sathyamoorthy reservoir is the reservoir across Kotralai River in Tiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu State.

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Ripon Building

The Ripon Building is the seat of the Greater Chennai Corporation (பெருநகர சென்னை மாநகராட்சி) in Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu.

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Roman Empire

The Roman Empire (Imperium Rōmānum,; Koine and Medieval Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr.) was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia.

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Sambandar

Sambandar (also called Thirugyana Sambandar, Tirugnana Sambanthar, Campantar, Champantar, Jnanasambandar, Gnanasambandar) was a young Saiva poet-saint of Tamil Nadu who lived around the 7th century CE.

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San Antonio

San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is the seventh most populous city in the United States and the second most populous city in both Texas and the Southern United States.

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Shaivism

Shaivism (Śaivam) (Devanagari: शैव संप्रदाय) (Bengali: শৈব) (Tamil: சைவம்) (Telugu: శైవ సాంప్రదాయం) (Kannada:ಶೈವ ಸಂಪ್ರದಾಯ) is one of the major traditions within Hinduism that reveres Shiva as the Supreme Being.

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Shiva

Shiva (Sanskrit: शिव, IAST: Śiva, lit. the auspicious one) is one of the principal deities of Hinduism.

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Silt

Silt is granular material of a size between sand and clay, whose mineral origin is quartz and feldspar.

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South India

South India is the area encompassing the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Puducherry, occupying 19% of India's area.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.

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Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu (• tamiḻ nāḍu ? literally 'The Land of Tamils' or 'Tamil Country') is one of the 29 states of India.

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Tamil Nadu Government Multi Super Speciality Hospital

Tamil Nadu Government Multi-Super-Speciality Hospital is a 400-bed government-owned super-speciality hospital in Chennai, India.

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Terminalia catappa

Terminalia catappa is a large tropical tree in the leadwood tree family, Combretaceae, that grows mainly in the tropical regions of Asia, Africa, and Australia.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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The Island, Chennai

The Island, also called as Island Grounds, is a river island situated on the Coovum River in the northern part of the Indian city of Chennai.

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Thevaram

Thevaram is a Town Panchayat in Theni district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Tiruvallur district

Tiruvallur district also known as Thiruvallur District, (Tamil: திருவள்ளூர் மாவட்டம்) is an administrative district in the South India One of districts in Chennai in the state of Tamil Nadu.The town of Tiruvallur is the district headquarters.

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Tiruvirkolam

Tiruvirkolam (also Cooum) is an ancient temple town on the banks of the Koovam River in Tamil Nadu, India.

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University of Madras

University of Madras is a public state university in Chennai (formerly Madras), Tamil Nadu, India.

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Water management in Chennai

The coastal city of Chennai has a metropolitan population of 8.24 million as per 2011 census.

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World Bank

The World Bank (Banque mondiale) is an international financial institution that provides loans to countries of the world for capital projects.

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2005 Chennai floods

The 2005 Chennai floods were some of the worst floods to have hit the city of Chennai, India.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooum_River

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