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As part of Mahaweli Development programme, the river and its tributaries are dammed at several locations to allow irrigation in the dry zone, with almost 1,000 km 2 (386 sq mi) of land irrigated. [5] The production of hydroelectricity from six dams in the Mahaweli system supplies more than 40% of Sri Lanka's electricity needs.
A Bend in the River is a 1979 novel by Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul. The novel, telling the story of Salim, a merchant in post-colonial mid-20th century Africa, is one of Naipaul's best known works and was widely praised. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1979. [1]
Mahiyanganaya is a town situated close to the Mahaweli River in Badulla District, Uva Province of Sri Lanka.It is said that Gautama Buddha visited Mahiyanganaya on the Duruthu full moon poya day in order to settle a dispute arose between Yakkas and Nagas (two tribes which then inhabited the area) and this was his first ever visit to Sri Lanka.
The biennial Henry Kendall Poetry Award, [20] run by Central Coast Poets Inc., has been won by poets Louise Oxley, Judy Johnson and Joan Kerr. On the hillside above West Gosford, near "Lookout – West Gosford" is a stone monument located on a tight bend of the Central Coast Highway, built sometime before 1920. [21] The marble plaque is inscribed:
Sieber estimates he has written about 5,000 little poems about the weather, news, holidays and sports. Now, some of them are in a book.
The Mahaweli Development program (Sinhala: මහවැලි සංවර්ධන වැඩසටහන) is known as the largest multipurpose national development program in the history of Sri Lanka and is also considered the keystone of the government's development program that was initiated in 1961.
The Kotmale River [1] (Sinhala: කොත්මලේ ඔය) is the longest tributary of Mahaweli River. The river begins as the Agra Oya, in the Horton Plains. The Central Plains have an annual rainfall of between 125 and 200 inches a year. The river is approximately 70 km (43 mi) long and drains a basin of about 58,534 ha (226 square miles).
Longley reading his poetry at the Corrymeela Peace Center in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland, July 2012. Ten Poems (1965), Belfast: Festival Publications; Secret Marriages: Nine Short Poems (1968), Manchester: Phoenix Press; No Continuing City (1969), London: Macmillan: New York: Dufour Editions; Lares (1972) Woodford Green, London: Poet & Printer