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Bridge Location Coordinates Length Route Crosses Completed Ref; Palk Strait Bridge: Palk Strait: 23 km (14 mi) AH: Palk Strait: Proposed Mahawewa Bridge 3.1 km (1.9 mi) E02 2014 [1] Aviththawa Bridge 695 m (2,280 ft) E01: Benthara River 2011 [2]
Adam's Bridge, [a] also known as Rama's Bridge or Rama Setu, [c] is a chain of natural limestone shoals between Pamban Island, also known as Rameswaram Island, off the southeastern coast of Tamil Nadu, India, and Mannar Island, off the northwestern coast of Sri Lanka. Geological evidence suggests that the bridge was formerly a land connection ...
The Nine Arch Bridge (Sinhala: ආරුක්කු නමයේ පාලම; Tamil: ஒன்பது வளைவுகள் பாலம்) also called the Bridge in the Sky, [4] is a viaduct bridge in Sri Lanka and one of the best examples of colonial-era railway construction in the country. [5]
The bridge proposed in the report uses a four-span suspension bridge with a central tower height of 376 m, central span length of 3,000 m, and bridge length of about 8,400 m as the main bridge, connecting the Toyo Strait with two bridges, the extension would be about 12.7 km. [51] The total project cost is currently estimated to be about 1.3 ...
Adam's Bridge with Mannar Island in the foreground. An Integrated Strategic Environmental Assessment of Northern Province produced by the government with the assistance of United Nations Development Programme and United Nations Environment Programme and published in October 2014 recommended that a national park with an area of 18,990 ha (46,925 acres) be created on the Sri Lankan section of ...
List of bridges in Sri Lanka This page was last edited on 12 July 2017, at 16:55 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
The bridge is located 81 km (50 mi) east of Maradankadawala, along the A11 Habarana-Thirikondiyadimadu road in Polonnaruwa District, linking North Central Province with Eastern Province over Mahaweli River. [3] The new bridge in Manampitiya was built with financial assistance of Japan, hence the name Sri Lanka-Japan Friendship Peace Bridge. [4]
Bridges in Western Province, Sri Lanka (2 C) This page was last edited on 12 July 2017, at 16:54 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...