Eco National parks in Sri Lanka
Minneriya national park
Minneriya national park is located 182 kilometers from Colombo, North central province of sri lanka and in 1938 minneriya park was declared as a wildlife century and it was designated as a national park on 12 August 1997, that minneriya tank is provide water for animals to surrounding area, that lake has built by king mahasen in 3 rd century, The north eastern monsoon from October to January the main sources of water for the tank. From Amban Ganga (river) and Elahara canal.Read More
Wasgamuwa National park
Wasgamuwa national park is situated 225 k/m from Colombo in the province of central and border of district, mathale and polonnaruwa it is announced as wild life sanctuary in 1984 and this park is more popular large herd of Elephants, as the temperature is 28 centigrade it is in the dry zone a mountain called sudu kanda is located in wasgamuwea national park.Read More
Udawalawa National park
This park was created in 1972 when the udawalawa dam was built, this beautiful sanctuary is located sabaragamuwa and uva province and is 165 kilo meters from Colombo .the main purpose to established this park was so the animal such as water birds and Elephant could live without a hindrance from humans this park is third popular national park in sri lanka.Udawalawe national park has wait and dry climate the annual rainfall is about 1500 mm kaltotha range and Diyawini water is situated in this park.
Eco National parks in Sri Lanka
Yala National park
Yala national park is the most popular National park in Sri Lanka as thousand of locales and as well as foreigners visits it. It is located 300 kilometers from Colombo and the park contains five blokes and kumana” the birds century is one which is popular out of this five ,The climate is dry but many herd of Elephants and birds amphibians closer to the park some religious ancient historical sites are located.Read More
Horton plains
The Horton plains is located in central hills between two huge tall mountains heavy rain fall disturb the flora the rain causes the three main rivers of lanka ,mahaweli,kalani and walawe,the area is covered by clouds and mist and most of the year it is wet ,this plain was renamed by the British ,sir Robert Wilmot Horton was the British governor of Ceylon from 1831 to 1837 Horton plan was declared as wild life sanctuary on 5 December 1969 by British government it is famous for gems caster,Read More
Sinharaja Forest
Sinharaja rain forest situated in Rathnapura district and south west lowland wet zone in sri lanka 11187 hectares covered from east to west by shinharaja rain forest.Sinharaja rain forest has been recognized by UNESCO as port of its international network of biosphere reserves it was declared a national wilderness area in 1988and lately a world heritage site in 1989 it is the average annual temperature of sinharaja is 23.6 c annual rainfall is more than 2500 mm may to July and October to December that two monsoons is being rainy seasons.