Welcome to Karwar.jpg Karwar is very beautiful coastal city situated end of Karnataka and Goa. city has very beautiful beach for morning and evening walk. city is covered with one side very thick forest and one side arabian sea there are islands with forts at devgad, kurmgad,
Karwar is district headquarter of uttarkannada district. The place is named after kadwad actually a far off village to the east on the banks of kali river and the british east india company's factory at kadwad had it's opening to the sea from the point where karwar now stands. British made this place their district headquarter in 1863AD by creating a new town.
This city is most importence of port beacause of this port is operating for all seasons. the port is a hill projecting into the sea and abounds with flora. islands anjdiv, devgad, kurmgad protect from heavy winds.karwar bay is remarkable for it's beautiful scenery studded with rows of coconut groves. poet rabindranath tagore wrote his first drama on a visit to this place . flanked by a series of verdant hills on the east and the sea on the west , with it's picturesque of all the district headquarters in the state. on his memory karwar people given this city beach name as Rabindranath tagore beach.
In karwar city every sunday market for vegitables,fruits,flowers,fishes, everything for home needs. This sunday market is known as very big market in uttarkannada district it's covers larger area approximately 800 meters. both sides of road from st. michels school to entire pickle road.
Now karwar slowly sarrounded with two big central government projects like Nuclear atomic power station situated in Kaiga 60 kms away from karwar and another one is Indian Naval base it covers 30 km of sea shore from Binaga to Ankola. Now already first phase is completed and started. it's largest Naval base in India.
Karwar climate also suitable for every one from february to may Summer season, June to September full rainy season and October to January winter season.for best season to visit karwar is october to may.