The city of Alappuzha, also known as Alleppey, is in Kerala. The district headquarters is 70 km south of Cochin. It is often called the Venice of the East due to the canals that connect it to Kerala's famous snaking backwaters.

Alappuzha has a wonderful past that owes its modern existence to the efforts of Diwan Raja Kesavadas in the second half of the 18th century. Diwan Raja Kasavadas was instrumental in making Alappuzha a major port city in his time and for developing the system of inland canals, used for transportation and navigation, that is seen today.

The name Alappuzha means "the land between the sea and network of rivers flowing into it". It is a fitting name: there are a significant number of canals, backwaters, beaches and lagoons in and around the city.

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