About Village
The village was earlier known as Poonjar Vadakkekkara and is the top most village of Meenachil Taluk. Thalanadu is a typical Kerala village, which is a mixture of the features of both midland countryside and the Malanad hill area, enveloped in greenery with a clean and unpolluted atmosphere. It is a small panchayat in Poonjar Vadakkekara Village, but quite long, stretching about 25 kilometres including Adukkom reaching up to the Vagamon and Munnilavu Panchayahth area, at about three thousand and five hundred feet above sea level. This place is known for its agriculture and landscape. It is full of hills and valleys in the middle of which flows the Meenachil river
Demography
The village has an area of 3652.3135 hectares. The literacy rate in this village is above 90% with very less unemployment recorded.
Geography
It has resemblance to a tropical rain-forest area with all kinds of trees like teak, jackfruit, etc., found in the Western Ghats region growing profusely besides coconut, latex rubber, arecanut and other crops. It is a very fertile area. Considerable variety of medicinal plants also grow here which have been used in making the traditional home remedies.
Socio-Economic
Large scale settlement in Thalanadu began more than 85 to 90 years ago. Here most of the people are farmers and they cultivate rubber, elachi, ginger, cardamom, clove, nutmeg, turmeric, pepper, cashew and other spices.
Ecology
The land is mostly hilly and rocky areas with wide variety of greenery and plantation lands.
Tourism
Thalanadu is naturally perched by its location in one of the busiest tourist circuits in Kerala.Ayyampara has a huge rock formation whose top is a flat expanse running into hundreds of acres. It is a place with many cliffs, a cave and panoramic views. People also visit this place in the evening to enjoy the cool breeze and see the sun set. Ayyampara is one of the main tourist destination in this place with big rock mountain three thousand and five hundred feet from the Sea level. Its more than 100 acres (0.40 km2) of rocks with temple and church on the top of it, getting more attention from tourists. Rolling hills and hillocks dot Thalanadu in abundance but some places are very steep. Many tourists come to experience the beauty of raining and Greenishness on the way to vagamon. Both the river and the flat land are flanked by hills. Plantations such as Rubber and other cultivations showing the developments of this area. The origin of meenachil river is starts from here.