Ettimadai
Ettimadai is located between Palakkad and Coimbatore along the Salem - Kochi Highway (NH544) (old NH 47) close to Tamil Nadu - Kerala border.Ettimadai Town panchayat is one of the fast-growing south-western suburbs of Coimbatore.[3][4][5] It is 20 km (12 mi) from Gandhipuram, heart of coimbatore city and it is home to Ettimadai railway station.Ettimadai as a suburb encloses other small villages, namely Kandhe Gounden Chavadi, Chinnaya Gounden Pudhur, Muruganpatti, Solakkarai and Modamaatti.A significant number of people migrated to southern Erode in the late 18th century.