Kuzhithurai (also called as "Kullhithurai") is a town and a municipality in Kanyakumari District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

The annual temple procession from Padmanabhapuram to Trivandrum stays overnight at Kuzhithurai per tradition started by the kings of Travancore.

It has the famous Lord Shiva Temple and the hillock has a cave containing rock-cut sculptures of Thirthankaras and attendant deities carved inside and outside dating back to the 9th century.

It is one of the longest and highest aqueducts in South Asia and is also a popular tourist spot in Kanyakumari District.

Mathur Aqueduct itself carries water of the Pattanamkal canal for irrigation over the Pahruli river, from one hill to another, for a distance of close to one kilometer.

This Aqueduct is necessitated due to the undulating land terrain of the area, which is also adjacent to the hills of the Western Ghats.

There is also a huge flight of stairs (made in recent times) that allows one to climb from the level of the Pahruli river to the trough.

Jerome Dhas Varuvel, S.D.B., 63, until then a novice master for the Salesians of Don Bosco in the Vellore diocese, as its first bishop.

Its headquarters will be at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Thirithuvapuram, and it will be a suffragan see of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madurai.