● Pichavaram mangrove Forest is located in Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu.
● It is the world’s second largest mangrove forest after Sunderbans.
● It is located between two prominent estuaries, the Vellar estuary in the north and Coleroon estuary in the south.
● The mangrove forest is separated from the Bay of Bengal by a sandbar.
● The mangrove forests consist of biotope species like Avicennia and Rhizophora.It also supports the existence of rare varieties of economically important shell and fishes.
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