TOPOGRAPHY

Kasaragod district lies between 11o - 18o and 12o - 48o' north latitudes and between 74o - 52' and 75o -26' east longitudes. The district is marked off from the adjoining areas outside the State by the Western Ghats which run parallel to the sea and constitute and lamost continuous mountain wall on the eastern side. The Ghats dominate the topography. The coastline is fringed with low cliffs alternating with stretches of sand. A few miles to the interior, the scene changes and the sand level rises towards the barrier of the Ghats and transforms into low red laterite hills interspersed with paddy fields and coconut gardens.

The district is bounded in the east by the Western Ghats, in the west by the Arabian sea, in the north by the Canara district of Karnataka and in the south by the Kannur district.

Based on physical features, the district falls into three natural divisions - the lowland bordering the sea, the midland consisting of the undulating country and the forest - clad highland on the extreme east