Kalawewa National Park in Sri Lanka

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Kalawewa National Park
Type	wild
Place	Anuradhapura
District	Anuradhapura District
Province	North Central Province
Country	Sri Lanka
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Zoological department
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History of updates	2021-06-30xx

Latest document update	2021-06-30 04:03:36
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Description

Kalawewa National Park, in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka .

Living elephants

At the Kalawewa National Park lives 5 elephants with records in this database: (detail list)

♂ Gotabhaya
⚪ Neela
♂ Rathaka
♂ Vibhishana
♂ Vijaya

Comments / picturesKala Wewa, built by the King Datusena in 460 A.D, is a twin reservoir complex (Kala Wewa & Balalu Wewa) which has a capacity of 123 million cubic meters. This reservoir complex has facilitated with a stone made spillway and three main sluices. From the central major sluice, a 40 Feet wide central conveys water to feed thousands of acres of paddy lands and ends at the historical capital Anuradhapura city tank Tissa Wewa meandering over 87 km (54 mi) at a slope of 6 inches per mile and is another wonder of primeval hydraulic engineering facility in ancient Ceylon.

Adding another national park to Sri Lanka’s protected areas, the government declared the wilderness around Kalawewa and Balaluwewa a sanctuary. GPS radio-tracking of a female and male elephant by the Department of Wildlife Conservation and the Centre for Conservation and Research has shown that some of the herds remain in the vicinity throughout the year.

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Koehl, Dan (2026). Kalawewa National Park, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=3211. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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