Uppuveli
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Uppuveli () is a gold sand coastal resort town of the Trincomalee District, Sri Lanka located in the suburb of Sambalativu, 6 km northwest of the city of Trincomalee. A historically popular tourist destination of the island alongside the nearby Nilaveli, the numbers of visitors declined following the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and Sri Lankan Civil War, but have risen again since 2010. It is home to the Salli Muthumariamman Kovil on its coast.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in LK, across 2 mapped points.
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It sits within the topics Kuchchaveli DS Division and Towns in Trincomalee District.
Vinony links it to 3 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Part of
- Trincomalee
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Located in
- Eastern Province
- Image
- Uppveli Beach in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Etymology
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Uppuveli () is a gold sand coastal resort town of the Trincomalee District, Sri Lanka located in the suburb of Sambalativu, 6 km northwest of the city of Trincomalee. A historically popular tourist destination of the island alongside the nearby Nilaveli, the numbers of visitors declined following the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and Sri Lankan Civil War, but have risen again since 2010. It is home to the Salli Muthumariamman Kovil on its coast.
==Etymology== Pronounced "Uppuveli", "Uppu" means salt while "vèli" is a Sri Lankan Tamil language term for land or open space.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Uppuveli” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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2 mapped locations