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Negombo Downtown Station is the main railway station on the Puttalam railway line. It serves Galle, via Colombo from south and to Puttalam, via Chilaw from north. The Sri Lanka Railway Department has introduced an intercity express train between Chilaw and Colombo with stops at Negombo Downtown and Kochchikade Stations.
1665 Map of Negombo fort. In its time the fort at Negombo was probably the next in strategic importance after Colombo, Jaffna and Galle. [1] The original Portuguese fort was a weak structure, which, according to the account of João Ribeyro; "Negombo was only a square enclosed by walls, with two redoubts and five guns.
Kandawala (Sinhala: කඳවල, romanized: Kan̆davala, Tamil: கந்தவல, romanized: Kantavala) (also known as Kandawala - Negombo and Kandawala - Katana) is a suburb of the city of Negombo, Sri Lanka.
Negombo Tamil is the fact that the Karavas immigrated to Sri Lanka much later than Tamils immigrated to Jaffna. This would suggest that the Negombo dialect continued to evolve in the Coromandel Coast before it arrived in Sri Lanka and began to get influenced by Sinhala.
The Hamilton Canal (Sinhala: හැමිල්ටන් ඇල Hæmiltan Æla) (also commonly known as the Dutch Canal) is a 14.5 km (9.0 mi) canal connecting Puttalam to Colombo, passing through Negombo in Sri Lanka. The canal was constructed by the British in 1802 and completed in 1804.
Bharatha People (Sinhala: භාරත, romanized: Bhārata, Tamil: பரதர், romanized: Paratar) also known as Bharatakula and Paravar, is an ethnicity in the island of Sri Lanka. [2] Earlier considered a caste of the Sri Lankan Tamils, they were classified as separate ethnic group in the 2001 census. [3]
Negombo Lagoon is a large estuarine lagoon in Negombo, south-west Sri Lanka. The lagoon is fed by a number of small rivers and the Hamilton Canal (also known as the Dutch canal). It is linked to the sea by a narrow channel to the north, near Negombo city.
The following is a list of schools in Western Province, Sri Lanka. [1] ... Negombo 1AB 3396 Negombo Katana Sri Pangnananda Vidyalaya, Kotugoda 1AB 1430 Negambo