Annavaram

  Annavaram is a village on the banks of the Pampa River. It is located in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. The village has the temple of Veera Venkata Satyanarayana, a form of Vishnu on the Ratnagiri…

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Mixed Heritage

  Since 1992, UNESCO has also recognised a “mixed” category that tries to address the limitations of trying to divide sites into “cultural heritage” and “natural heritage”. This mixed category is…

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Western Ghats

  The Western Ghats are a chain of low mountains running 1,600 kilometres parallel to India’s western coast from Gujarat to southern Kerala between 30-50 kilometres inland. They have some…

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