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Because of being an island, Sri Lanka has many endemic freshwater fauna, as well as thousands of marine and brackish water fauna. Fishing is the way of life of most of coastal community. So, the marine fish fauna gives a greater commercial value to the country's economy, as well as well being of the coastal people.
Pages in category "Grama Niladhari Divisions of Homagama Divisional Secretariat" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
UTC+5:30 ( SLT) Postal Code. 10200 [1] Homagama is a town in the Colombo District, Sri Lanka, about 24 kilometres (15 mi) south-east of Colombo. The Homagama Pradeshiya Sabha consists of the Homagama divisional secretariat and 10 GN division of Padukka DS division. The total Land area is about is 137 square kilometres (53 sq mi) of 90 GN division.
Divisional secretariats are the third-level administrative divisions of the country and there are currently [as of?] 331 divisional secretariats in Sri Lanka. [1] They were formerly known as D.R.O. divisions, after the divisional revenue officer. Later the D.R.O.s became assistant government agents and the givisions were known as A.G.A. divisions.
railway station Code District Elevation m Distance between Colombo Fort Km; Colombo Fort: FOT Colombo: 4.87 0 Maradana: MDA Colombo: 5.46 2.08 Dematagoda: DAG Colombo: 3.05
Country. Sri Lanka. Province. Western Province. District. Colombo District. Time zone. UTC+5:30 (Sri Lanka Standard Time) Homagama Divisional Secretariat is a Divisional Secretariat of Colombo District, of Western Province, Sri Lanka .
Special Schools. The School for the Deaf, Ratmalana. The School for the Blind, Ratmalana. Jaya Sewana Special School, Kotte. The Chitra Lane School for Special Child, Colombo. Sri Chandrasekara School for the Deaf, Moratuwa. Dr. Reijntes School For the Deaf, Moratuwa.
There are 95 species of freshwater fish occur in the country, where 53 of those are endemic. 41% of all known species of fish of Sri Lanka are found in freshwater. There are about 70% of endemism of those fish. Most of them are listed into IUCN categories. Four Devario species were described in 2017 by Batuwita et al.