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Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage (Sinhala: පින්නවල අලි අනාථාගාරය), is a captive breeding and conservation institute for wild Asian elephants located at Pinnawala village, 13 km (8.1 mi) northeast of Kegalle town in Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka. Pinnawala has the largest herd of captive elephants in the world.
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Pinnawala is a village in Kegalle District of Sri Lanka and is around 90 km from the capital, Colombo. It is well known for its elephant orphanage . Elephant Orphanage
Kamala was born in the wild in Yala National Park, [6] Sri Lanka, around 1975, and was taken care of by the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage [3] after she was orphaned at the age of five months. [3] In 1976, she was sent to the Calgary Zoo in Canada. [7] They had purchased her from the orphanage alongside a bull, Bandara, and another female, Swarna.
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Pinnawala Open Zoo (also called Pinnawala Zoo: Sinhala: පින්නවල සත්වෝද්යානය) is a zoological garden in Pinnawala, Sri Lanka, which is situated closer to the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage. The zoo was opened for public on 17 April 2015.