Chaliyar Mouth

The Chaliyar flows from the Nilgiri Hills to the Arabian Sea at Beypore, opposite the harbour of Chaliyam. The river reaches the coast south of Kozhikode, the port of the Zamorin and a meeting place for merchants from across the Indian Ocean. In 1498 Vasco da Gama reached Kozhikode by sea from Europe, bringing Portuguese ships into the long-established trade of Malabar.