Kotagiri

Kotagiri is a hill station and a taluk in The Nilgiris District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The Nilgiri hills has been the traditional home of the "kota" tribes. The name ‘Kota-giri’ itself means ‘mountains of the kotas’.Kotagiri was known in the past as “Kota-Keri” or “Kota-gherry” the street of Kotas”. The town has developed around numerous knolls and valleys. It is one of the largest hill station in the Nilgiri Mountains. Located at an average elevation of 1,950 m (6,400 ft), Kotagiri is quietly tucked away in the Nilgiris and used to be one of the summer resort of Madras Presidency. The town was discovered in the year 1819 by John Sullivan when he came to a village called Dhimbatty to the North of Kotagiri. Situated at an elevation of about 6,400 feet, Kotagiri enjoys the third coldest climate next to Ooty and Kodaikanal in South India.