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Lunugamvehera National Park

The Lunugamvehera National Park
The Lunugamvehera National Park was designed to protect water-ways and to provide a resting-station for elephants, migrating between the Eastern section of the Yala Wildlife Conservation and the Western side of the Udawalawa National Park. As the biodiversity
in this area, including elephants is considerable, in order to conserve the area, it was declared a National Park under the Wildlife and Conservation Act and on December 8th 1995.

Borders of the park.

This National Park which belongs to the Divisional Secretariats of Thanamalwila, Wallawaya, Kataragama and Buttala of the Monaragala District of the Uva Province covers 23,498.08 hectares of land.

Ways to reach the park

While the main office of the park is situated on the Hambanthota-Wallawaya road, there are two roads leading to the park.

01. Travelling 245 km, passing through Udawalawa Thanamalwila from Cololbo.
02. Travelling through Colombo, Galle, Matara and Hambanthota, passing the Weerawila Junction and travelling 280km on the Wallawaya road.
03. Apart from this, travelling from Kataragama,passing the Gamudawa Junction and traveling acros Tammanawa, 18 km, takes a traeller to Lunugamvehera.

The park could be accessed through two main roads. Those are, the road situated at the edge of the bank of the Lunugamvehera wewa and through the black bridge situated near the Conservation Office at Thanamalwila.

Geographical Features.
In this park which is situated in the wet-zone, small hillocks can be seen here and there. The height from the sea-level is usually 91 meters. The beautiful mountain at a height of 20 meters is the highest point of the park.

Plant-life.

The eoc-systemc onsists of Dry zone and evergreen forests. Weera, Kone, Palu, Hik, Kunumallawa, Kirikone, Ulkenda, Kappetiy and Coffee plants are commonly seen.

Wildlife

Due to the grass the gas that grows around the Lunugamvehera lake, many wild animals could be seen arriving here searching for food. Among them are many elephants and buffalo apart from dandulena, Porcupines, Kola diviya, MOngoose, Wild boar, Mimiththa and Spotted deer.

Among the types of bird which live here are the native Jungle fowl which faces a threat of extinction. Among the reptiles could be seen the Crocodile, Star tortoise, and Pala Polanga.

Archelogical ruins of Pas Kema (Waterholes), Hathkema and seven vihara, a cave-painting and stone inscription can be seen.

The main lakes of the park.
The Weheragala lake has been built by obstructing the Menikgaga at Weheragala. It was opened in 2008, and was built by Mr. Gunadasa, a Sri Lankan engineer, using traditional Sri Lankan building techniques. Also, the Lunugamvehera lake has been built by obstructing the Kirindi Oya at Lunugamvehera.

Guest houses.

Two Guest HOues to serve loval and forieign tourists visitng the Park have been built. They are,
1. Thalgaha digana
2. Weragala

Each Guest house is built near the river, and are equiped with all facilties, including food, while 20 guests could lodge at one time. Reservations could be made t the main Wildlife Office at Colobo

Wilpatthu national park( wilpattu )



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Wilpatthu national park is among the oldest and most important of protected areas in sri lanka its flora and fauna are representative of the dray lowland zone.

It also contains a number of important cultural sites. Extension of the park to include the adjacent waters is identified a priority

Location

The park lies on nirthwest cost, 30km due west of Anuradhapura,and spans the border between north western provins and north central province. The Modaragam Aru .in the south. In the Kala Oya , And in The west Portuguese and Dutch bays and the open sea.
Access

The only practiclaccess from colombo would be via Negombo, chilaw and Putthalam .the turn off is at the little of hamlet of Thimbiriwewa on the 28th mile post along the putthalam Anuradhapura road. The park office, where one obtains permit and guide is Hunuwilagama, 8km from the turn off.

The main topographical feature in this park is the concentration of” villus” or lakes within it. Though looking like lakes, these ‘villus’’ are in flat basin like fault depressions on the earth surface containing purely rain water. Two of these ‘villus ‘are saline, due to a characteristic in the soil. This villu feature is peculiar to this part of the island. The other equally striking feature, though confined to certain sectors of the park. Is copper read, loamy soils extremely varied? The western sector of the park. With deeply forested areas and thorny bushes is reminiscent of yala national park in the southern sri lanka. Wilpatthu national park ranges from sea level to 152m. The area of Wilpatthu national park is 131,693 hectares.

Cultural Heritage;

Much legend and history is associated with the park and its immediate surroundings .Vijaya landed at kudrimalai in 543BC and founded Sinhalese race.Vijaya Married Kuveni, the jungle princess,whose palace lice in ruins at Kali villu. north –east of Maradanmaduwa are Wirandagoda and Galbindi Niyara where Prince Saliya ,son of king Dutugamunu ,is reputed to have lived with his forest bride of low cast,asoka Mala,some 200 years ago .Kudiramalai ,or Horse Point ,was visited by a subject of Emperor Claudius in 47 AD ,who was blown off course by monsoon. The local king later sent his own envoys to Rome during the time Pliny. The palace of Queen Alitani,Aliserrani is reputed to lie burid at Kudrimalai.Pomparippu is an archaeological site where sealed urns containing human remains have been fund. These burials ware probably in pre-Vijayan time. There are engraved stone boundary posts from ancient Hindu temple sit on the top of Kudrimalai Point Nearby,on the beach lies the grave of Muslim saint The old catholic church at Pallakanal is visited by several thousand pilgrims for the annual festival . in the eastern part there are remnants of breached tanks lift over from agricultural systems of ancient Sinhalese civilization.

VEGETATION
Three types of VEGETATION can be distinguished : Littoral vegetation including salt grass and low scrub immediately adjacent to the beach; a 5-10km coastal belt of monsoon scrub of very low stature ; and further inland , monsoon forest with tall emergent’s ,such as Palu (Manilkara Hexandra)and satin Chloroxylon Swietenia, Milla (Vitex Altissima) .Weera(Drypetes Sepiaria) ,Ebony (Diopyros Ebenum)some 73% of the park is dense forest or scrub and the rest is more open habitat.
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