Marakkanam

Marakkanam is a coastal panchayat town and taluk in Viluppuram area in the Indian province of Tamil Nadu. It is very much associated with the state capital Chennai and the close-by association region of Puducherry by the East Coast Road. Toward the west, Marakkanam is associated with the town of Tindivanam by the SH-134. Marakkanam is arranged on the announced National Waterways NW-4. On emergence of National Waterways NW-4, Marakkanam will be associated with two states Andhra Pradesh Kakinada and Puducherry through north and south of Buckingham Canal.

Marakkanam was associated with Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh through the Buckingham Canal, a 420 km long new water route trench. The 110-km extend from Marakkanam to Chennai is called South Buckingham Canal. The channel associates the vast majority of the normal backwaters along the drift to the port of Chennai Madras. It was built by the British Raj, and was a vital conduit amid the late nineteenth and the twentieth century. Channel was earlier used to pass on merchandise here and there, however later the use has downsized because of modern contamination of water.