Kilakarai

Kilakarai is a region in Ramanathapuram region in the Indian province of Tamil Nadu. Starting at 2011, the town had a populace of 38,355. Kilakarai is one of the Taluka in Ramanathapuram District. It is likewise called as Kutti Singapore Kilakarai is a seaside town and a port, situated in the southern Tamil Nadu. It was a thriving ocean port and an entryway to places similar to Madurai until the mid twentieth century.

The acclaimed pearl belt known as the Gulf of Mannar in the Bay of Bengal is specked with little islands Appa Tivu, Nallathanni Theevu, Shuli Tivu, Uppu Tanni Tivu, Talari Tivu and Musal Tivu. The seaside line of Kilakarai is framed by arrangement of little inlets and best coral reefs protecting the town from the risks of the sea. It was likewise called as "Kelikkarai", "Ninathaan mudithaan pattinam", "Sembi Nadu", "lebbat pattan". The prime occupations of the general population were pearl, conch, ocean exchange and transport.

The mid-twentieth century saw a decrease in the occupations of the general population of Kilakarai, with the approach of the surface transport the Merchant Navies blurred away and Kilakarai otherwise known as Killikare stopped to be a harbor and port. The refined pearl industry and the thoughtless trawl angling that crushed the coral reefs, gagged the once strong pearl exchange or Muthu Salabam. The conch and coral ventures declined because of new controls and confinements. Vattalappam is a well known dish amid Eid and some uncommon events.