Point Pedro
Point Pedro, also known as Paruthithurai is a town, located in Jaffna District, Sri Lanka, at the northernmost point of the island. Cotton is produced around Point Pedro in the fertile calcic red latosol soils.
- Type: Town with 20,000 residents
- Description: town in Sri Lanka
- Also known as: “ペドロ岬”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Point Pedro Lighthouse and Velautham Maha Vidyalayam.
Point Pedro Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Point Pedro Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Point Pedro in northern Sri Lanka.
Velautham Maha Vidyalayam
School
Velautham Maha Vidyalayam is a provincial school in Point Pedro, Sri Lanka.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nelliyady and Alvai.
Nelliyady
Town
Nelliady is a town in Jaffna District, Sri Lanka. Nelliyady is situated 5 km southwest of Point Pedro.
Alvai
Village
Alvai or Alvaay is a coastal village in Vadamaraadchi, northern Jaffna Peninsula, Sri Lanka.
Vallipuram
Village
Vallipuram is a village in Vadamarachchi, near Point Pedro in Northern Province, Sri Lanka. Vallipuram is situated 4 km south of Point Pedro.
Point Pedro
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Vadamaradchi North Divisional Secretariat, Jaffna District, Northern Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
9.8241° or 9° 49′ 27″ north
Longitude
80.2362° or 80° 14′ 10″ east
Population
20,000
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
UN/LOCODE
LK PPE
Open location code
6MX2R6FP+JF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Venetian—“Point Pedro” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Point Pedro”
- Catalan: “Point Pedro”
- Cebuano: “Point Pedro”
- Chinese: “佩德罗角”
- Chinese: “佩德羅角”
- Dutch: “Point Pedro”
- Esperanto: “Point Pedro”
- French: “Point Pedro”
- Friulian: “Point Pedro”
- German: “Point Pedro”
- Italian: “Point Pedro”
- Japanese: “ポイント・ペドロ”
- Malayalam: “പരുത്തിത്തുറൈ”
- Mingrelian: “პოინტ-პედრო”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Point Pedro”
- Norwegian: “Point Pedro”
- Persian: “پوینت پدرو”
- Polish: “Point Pedro”
- Russian: “Пойнт-Педро”
- Sinhala: “පේදුරු තුඩුව”
- Spanish: “Point Pedro”
- Swedish: “Point Pedro”
- Tamil: “பருத்தித்துறை”
- Urdu: “پوائنٹ پیڈرو”
- Venetian: “Point Pedro”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Suppar Madam and Thumpalai.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Point Pedro Shopping & Market and Point Pedro Post Office.
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Worth a closer look: Jaffna and Mannar.
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