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| Mangorange Post Office |
The very word Mango Orange can be tempting to visitors but
the original name of the village lacked one ‘o’ and it was simply
Mangorange. Anyway there is a Mangorange
post office here which is an ideal location for trekking. Be careful of wild elephants and tigers that attacks people even during day
time. Most of the people here are tea
estate workers as tea estates are the only type of farms found here. A small number of buildings like schools and
sheds are also visible.
Mango Orange village is 30 km from Sulthan Bathery in Kerala
and 25 km from Gudalur in Tamil Nadu State of India. It is located at an
altitude of 880 metres from the sea level.
During the nineteenth century, a London based mining company
made a township in the village and also built a Christian church and a race
course. When there was no further scope for mining, the British investors
shifted to plantations. Coffee and tea plantations were created in a massive
scale. Many European people settled here and supervised the work. A large
number of Indians from the Malabar region were employed in the estates.
At present, the whole village is dominated by tea estates of
Tantea or Tamil Nadu Tea Plantation Corporation Limited, Harrisons Malayalam
Limited of the RPG Group and Parry Agro Industries Ltd of the Murugappa Group.
This village is a sacred place for the aboriginal communities like Paniyas,
Kurumbas and Kattu Nayakas. Today the population of the village is a mixture of
migrated Sri Lankan Tamils, Gowdas and Kerala Muslims. The village is famous
for small scale gold mining activities done by the tribal people.
In 2016, Mango Orange village filled national headlines
because of a series of deaths from elephant attacks.
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