Mahaweli river - Sri lanka's longest river

Mahaweli is the largest river found in Sri lanka.It starts from the Hatton plateau on the western side of the island's hill country and ends in east at trincomalee district.This river is 335km long and it is a significant length,considering Sri lanka's size (maximum length of the country is 432km).It is said that Mahaweli river's drainage basin is almost 1/5th of the country in size!

River Mahawali does an outstanding job in nourishing the country by many means.It helps to gain electricity to the country(you may not know that Sri lanka gets considerable amount ot its electricity by Hydro-power)and supplies water for a huge area of agricultural lands.One of Sri lanka's largest irrigation projets is woven around this great river so,is named as "The Mahaweli development project."

During our childhood days we were taught about 4 great rivers arise from the central hills of the country that flow out towards the ocean and on their way to the ocean nurturing the country throughout..Those rivers were "Mahaweli,Kelani,Kalu and Walawe" rivers.

As Sri lanka is an agricultural land full of beautiful paddy fields ,water is our blood... and Mahaweli river is the best source of that blood for our mother nation.

want to know more about how Mahaweli river has been manipulated in our country? please visit
Mahaweli development project