Pinnawala
Pinnawala is a village in Kegalle District of Sri Lanka and is around 90 km from the capital, Colombo. It is well known for its elephant orphanage.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage and Rambukkana railway station.
Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage
Zoo
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage, is a captive breeding and conservation institute for wild Asian elephants located at Pinnawala village, 13 km northeast of Kegalle town in Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka.
Rambukkana railway station
Railway station
Photo: Alexey Komarov, CC BY 3.0.
Rambukkana Railway Station is a railway station in the Kegalle District, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka. The station is served by Sri Lanka Railways, which is the state-run railway operator.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rambukkana and Molagoda.
Rambukkana
Town
'Rambukkana', Pradeshiya Sabha, lies within the Kegalle district in Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka. The Council was incorporated on 7 July 1991 as Rambukkana ward and a few small towns. Rambukkana is situated 3 km north of Pinnawala.
Molagoda
Village
Molagoda is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within Sabaragamuwa Province. Molagoda is situated 5 km south of Pinnawala.
Mawanella
Town
Mawanella is a town which belongs to the Kegalle district in the Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka. It lies between Kegalle and Kadugannawa along the Colombo-Kandy road. Mawanella is situated 9 km southeast of Pinnawala.
Pinnawala
- Type: Village with 5,000 residents
- Description: town in Sabaragamuwa Province
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Pinnawala, Rambukkana Divisional Secretariat, Kegalle District, Sabaragamuwa, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
7.30043° or 7° 18′ 2″ northLongitude
80.3863° or 80° 23′ 11″ eastPopulation
5,000Elevation
108 metres (354 feet)Open location code
6MV2892P+5GOpenStreetMap ID
node 2853533969OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
1230151Wikidata ID
Q2095912
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Uzbek—“Pinnawala” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Pinnawala”
- Dutch: “Pinnawala”
- French: “Pinnawala”
- German: “Pinnawala”
- German: “Pinnawalla”
- German: “Pinnawella”
- Irish: “Pinnawala”
- Japanese: “ピンナワラ”
- Persian: “پینناوالا”
- Sinhala: “පින්නවල”
- Swedish: “Pinnawala”
- Tamil: “பின்னவலை”
- Uzbek: “Pinnawala”
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Notable Places Nearby
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