Pathanapuram

Pathanapuram is an administrative division situated in the Western Ghats in the Kollam District of Kerala state of India. It is about 13 kms from industrial town Punalur. It covers a mountainous area of 248.32 km2. The area was rich in forest cover and had a roaming elephant population and other tropical wild animals. The name of the place "Pathanapuram"(malayalam language) can be translated as "ten elephants puram". A large part of the rain forests were cut down to create rubber plantations, but there still exists a considerable area of very dense tropical rainforest.