Unawatuna
Sign in to saveUnawatuna is a coastal town in Galle district of Sri Lanka. Unawatuna is a major tourist attraction in Sri Lanka and known for its beach and corals. It is a suburb of Galle, about southeast of the city center and approximately south of Colombo. Unawatuna is situated at an elevation of above sea level. Despite significant development in the last decade it is still home to the endangered and endemic purple-faced langur, an unusually shy monkey species only found in Sri Lanka's forests.
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Place details
- Locality
- Rumassala
- Region
- Southern Province
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Population
- 2,000
- Timezone
- Asia/Colombo
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Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Unawatuna
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Unawatuna.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Unawatuna Beach
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Sri Lanka
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Sri Lanka
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Southern Province
- Settlement.timezone
- Sri Lanka Standard Time Zone
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +5:30
- Settlement.timezone_DST
- Summer time
- Settlement.utc_offset_DST
- +6
- Settlement.postal_code_type
- Post Code
- Settlement.postal_code
- 80600
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Located in
- Southern Province
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Image
- Unawatuna.jpg
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- Commons category
- Unawatuna
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Mythical roots
- From Ramayana
- Alternate mythology
- Dagaba
- Colonial period
- Tourism
- Eco-Tourism
- Current status
- Transport
- Facilities
- Attractions
- See also
- References
- External links
Unawatuna is a coastal town in Galle district of Sri Lanka. Unawatuna is a major tourist attraction in Sri Lanka and known for its beach and corals. It is a suburb of Galle, about southeast of the city center and approximately south of Colombo. Unawatuna is situated at an elevation of above sea level. Despite significant development in the last decade it is still home to the endangered and endemic purple-faced langur, an unusually shy monkey species only found in Sri Lanka's forests.
==Mythical roots==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Unawatuna” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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