Geographical Background of Matara District

According to the geograpical factors there will be a uniform increas of height towards the north direction from the sea coast. There are very beautiful, various types of mountain ranges. The height of the largest mountain is about 35000ft. Aninkanda(2625ft), Thibbotugala kanda(2965ft), Kurulugalakanda(3880ft)and Gongala kanda(3900ft) are also sitiuated in Matara. The significant thing of this mountain ranges is their parallelism.

A considerable rain fall and temperature prevails during Yala and Maha seasons. The normal temperature is 800F and the rain fall is between 100_150 inches.

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