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Lewella
Sign in to saveLewella (meaning "blood sand") is a village and northeastern suburb of Kandy, in Central Province, Sri Lanka. It contains the Buddhist Lewella Meditation Centre, as well as a center for the Jesuits. The Mahaweli River flows on the eastern side, with a small bridge along Sirimalwatta Road, known as Lewella Suspension Bridge, leading across the river to the east.
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It is catalogued under topics including Geography of Kandy District and Kandy.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Locality
- Kandy
- Region
- Central Province
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Population
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Located in
- Kandy District
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
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Lewella (meaning "blood sand") is a village and northeastern suburb of Kandy, in Central Province, Sri Lanka. It contains the Buddhist Lewella Meditation Centre, as well as a center for the Jesuits. The Mahaweli River flows on the eastern side, with a small bridge along Sirimalwatta Road, known as Lewella Suspension Bridge, leading across the river to the east.
Lewella can also be seen spelled as "Le Wella," meaning "bloody beach" due to a massacre in the area from the first major British invasion in the 1800s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lewella” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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