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The lagoon has extensive mangrove swamps and attracts a wide variety of water birds including cormorants, herons, egrets, gulls, terns and other waders. Negombo, Katunayake, Seeduwa are some nearby towns. Lagoon fishing is popular among the fishing community in Negombo. Lagoon crabs and lagoon prawns are in high taste and demand.
The name "Negombo" is the Portuguese corruption of its Tamil name Neerkolombu. [2] [note 1]The Sinhala name Migamuva comes from a legend mentioned in Rajaveliya. [3] The army of King Kavantissa found bee honey in a canoe near the seashore, for Viharamahadevi who was pregnant with the prince Dutugamunu.
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Muthurajawela is a marsh in Sri Lanka in the southern region of the Negombo lagoon, 30 km (19 mi) north of Colombo.The Muthurajawela Marshes are 3,068 ha (7,580 acres) in area and the country's largest saline coastal peat bog. [1]
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.
Kurana is a municipal ward of Negombo, Sri Lanka. It is on the Negombo - Colombo Main road and is located a few miles from the Bandaranaike International Airport . It has an average elevation of 7 m (23 ft) above sea level.
The Malala-Ambilikala Lagoons system is the main lagoon system situated in one of the three Ramsar sites within Sri Lanka, the Bundala National Park.The two lagoons are interconnected by a 3.1 kilometres (1.9 mi) long, meandering incised channel called 'Ooday' (Sinhala: ඌඩේ) in Sinhalese. [1]