Pulicat Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
town in Tamil Nadu, India
About Pulicat
The Portuguese established a trading post in Pulicat in 1502 with the help of the Vijayanagar rulers. They built a fort there and held this fort until 1609 when they were defeated by the Dutch. The Dutch occupied Pulicat fort in 1609. Between 1621 and 1665, 131 slave ships were deployed by the Dutch to export captured on the Coromandel coast. 38,441 Indians were transported from Pulicat to be sold as slaves to Dutch plantations in Batavia. Pulicat was until 1690 the capital of Dutch Coromandel. It repeatedly changed possession, until finally occupied by the British in 1825. Pulicat is within the Pulicat Lake Bird Sanctuary. Every year between October and March, thousands of migratory birds land here. Though many species can be seen, the flamingos are the most visible, covering the swamps s
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