Castle Rock, Karnataka

Castle Rock, Karnataka

Castlerock is a village in the Uttara Kannada (North Kanara) district Indian state of Karnataka, The town is located in the Western Ghats on the state's border with Goa at an elevation of 621 m (2,040 ft).

Kannada, Konkani and Marathi is spoken as a local language. Urdu and English are also used in social communication.

Located at height in a heavily forested area, Castle Rock's vegetation is moist tropical deciduous. Manganese mines in the area form the main economy of the region. The area, which is within the Dandeli Tiger Reserve contains many of them.

For many years the town marked the frontier between Portuguese-held Goa and British-held India. A metre gauge railway line used to connect the Goan towns of Vasco and Margao with the rest of India and was the only rail link in the state till the Konkan Railway started services in the early 1990s. In the early-1990s, the Indian Railways converted the metre gauge line to broad gauge, thus connecting the old rail network with the rest of India. Metre gauge tracks can still be seen at the local railway station.