- Chowlahiriyur
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Chowlahiriyur — village — Coordinates 13°41′22″N 76°11′59″E / 13.689550°N 76.1996230°ECoordinates: 13°41′22″N 76°11′59″E / 13.689550°N 76.1996230°E Country India State Karnataka District(s) Chikkamagaluru Subdistrict(s) Kadur Taluk Nearest city chikkamagaluru Parliamentary constituency Udupi Civic agency Grama panchayat chowlahiriyur Population 10,000 Time zone IST (UTC+05:30) Chowlahiriyur is a village in Kadur Taluk Chikkamagaluru District and is about 18 km from Hosadurga. Population is around 10,000.
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Economy
Agriculture is the main occupation. Mainly dependent on rainfall for agriculture. Important crops being ragi, jowar, oil seeds, horse gram, green gram, onion, green chilly. Coconut is the important plantation crop.
From past few years as in many other villages we can observe a trend of moving of considerable amount of the population to the cities like Bengaluru, Davanagere and other cities.
There are also many people working in government offices and private sectors. Among all government jobs, teacher job is the most sorted among students because of its short duration and less fees compared to other professional courses.
Places of worship
There is a famous Shree Someshwara temple in the heart of the village which was renovated in the year of 2000. Devotees of this temple mainly belong to Lingayath community.
Shree Bhoga nanjundeshwara temple is mainly worshipped by Kuruba community .Situated in the heart of the city.
Also there is an old temple which was built in the period of hoysalas called as Chowdammana gudi or horala(horagala) gudi. Though this temple is less famous compared to above two , it is very beautiful situated outside the village in between coconut plantation. It was built in the period of Hoysalas . Completely built in stones and a treat to watch especially in the evening time. You can see video at below link .... Sadly under the name of development ,the whole interior walls have been changed to granite and original walls of ancient time have been destroyed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW0vTxr7rg0
Education
Education is considered very seriously here. We can see a good number of teachers , engineers ,public servants and few doctors who studied in the college of chowlahiriyur. Village has two government primary school , government high school and a pre-university college . There is also a private convent.
Public facilities
Government primary health centre, Public library, APMC market, Samudaya bhavana, Grama panchayat Karnataka bank has a branch here.
Demographics
Religion
Population mainly consists of Hindus and very few Muslim people. Castes: Lingayats and kurubas are more in number with considerable population of Scheduled caste and tribe. Other communities are Devangadaru , upparu etc.
Religious activities and festivals
Maheshwara jaathre , Bhogadyyana jaathre are very famous and are celebrated every year and there is also a once in 13 year jaathre in which selected 8 people eat living sheep.
Language
Kannada is the only spoken language.
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