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Kalutara, North: No. 717-D-Kalutara North: Kalutara: 6 June 2008: Buddha shrine with frescoes [12] Official residence of high court judge: Kalutara, South: Kalutara: 8 July 2005 [14] Palatota ammunition store: No. 723E Palatota: Kalutara: 23 February 2007 [15] Paragasthota Sri Sudharsanarama Vihara: No. 844 - B Dickhena: Millaniya: 23 January 2009
Ceratophora erdeleni, also known commonly as Erdelen's horned lizard or Erdelen's horn lizard, [3] is a species of lizard in the family Agamidae. The species is endemic to Sri Lanka . [ 4 ] It has only a rudimentary "horn", that is occasionally missing altogether.
Plant diversity and endemism in Sri Lanka are quite high. Of 3,210 flowering plants belonging to 1,052 genera, 916 species and 18 genera are endemic. [3] All but one of Sri Lanka's more than 55 dipterocarp (Sinhalese "Hora") are found nowhere else in the world. Sri Lanka's amphibian diversity is only becoming known now.
The archaeological heritage of Sri Lanka can be divided into three ages; Prehistoric (Stone-age), Protohistoric (Iron age), and historical period. The presence of man activities in Sri Lanka probably dates from 75,000 years ago (late Pleistocene period). Prehistoric sites which are presently identified in the country are distributed from the ...
The game was documented by Henry Parker in Ancient Ceylon: An Account of the Aborigines and of Part of the Early Civilisation (1909) with the name perali kotuwa or the war enclosure. [20] Parker mentions that it is also played in India. It closely resembles another game from Sri Lanka called Kotu Ellima. The two games use the same board which ...
Kalutara District is located in the south-west of Sri Lanka and has an area of 1,598 square kilometres (617 sq mi). [1] It is bounded by Colombo District in the north, Ratnapura District in the east, Galle District in the south, and the Indian Ocean in the west. [4]
Kalutara Bodhiya is one of the most sacred Buddha Buddhist sites in Sri Lanka. [citation needed] It is one of the 32 saplings of Anuradhapura Sri Maha Bodiya. Kalutara Bodiya is located on Colombo-Galle road. [3] Richmond Castle, Kalutara is a two-storey mansion, built in 1896, at Palatota. Richmond Castle is a 42-acre fruit garden estate ...
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