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COCANADA, or COCONADA

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 615 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COCANADA, or COCONADA , a See also:town of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Godavari See also:district of See also:Madras, on the See also:coast in the extreme See also:north of the Godavari See also:delta, about 315 M. N. of Madras. Pop. (1901) 48,096, showing an increase of 18 % in the See also:decade. As the administrative headquarters of the district, and the See also:chief See also:port on the Coromandel coast after Madras, Cocanada was formerly of considerable importance, but its See also:shipping See also:trade has declined, owing to the silting of the anchorage, and to the construction of the railway. It is connected by navigable channels with the See also:canal See also:system of the Godavari delta, and by a See also:branch See also:line with Samalkot on the See also:East Coast railway. The anchorage is an open roadstead, with two lighthouses. The chief exports are See also:rice,See also:cotton, See also:sugar and oilseeds. See also:Mills have been established for cleaning rice. The town contains a second-grade See also:college, a high school, and a See also:literary association.

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