Cunchelim Tourist Information

Cunchelim is a land-locked village, surrounded by Duler in the South, Siolim (Marna) in the west, Camurlim (Maina) and Colvale in the north and Tivim in the east. You come upon it suddenly. You feel you are in high country, but find yourself in a flat valley covered with nice-smelling trees, swaying palm-spiked groves and flooded with cashew plants on the surrounding rolling hillocks. Like Batim and Betim, the media often mixes up Cunchelim and Cuncolim!

Cunchelim is just a deep breath from Mapusa in Bardez; some two-and-a-half kilometres. If you take the carreira - usually crammed with commuters - plying between Mapusa and Siolim via Marna, you get down at the first intersection on entering the village, and walk some 300 metres. If you travel by the Mapusa/Siolim bus via Sodiem or the Mapusa/Camurlim one, you alight at the main junction, near the church, where most of the village dwellings are clustered. If need be, you could also take the Colvale/Mapusa bus and alight at Gotnicho Vau.

There is a rivulet, Lover, which originates at the feet of the hillock up the Gotniche Vau and rushes down to the Kuntla Spring, where you get a panoramic view of the waterfalls during the rushing rain waters, and cuts through the middle of the paddy fields. There are two bridges across the Lover. The smaller one Porno Sanvok, like the Panaji Patto bridge, built during the Portuguese era of simple but tough stones, continues to give service unhindered. This Lover is vital to the fields along the banks. Seasonal fishing is done. The water is blocked and stored soon after the rains, so that most parts of the stream hardly get dry. It is ideal for cattle to bathe, especially for buffaloes to romp about in the muddy waters to keep themselves cool during the month of May.

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