Pidurutalagala
Pidurutalagala, or previously Mount Pedro in English, is the highest mountain in Sri Lanka, at 2,524 m. It is situated North-North-East from the town of Nuwara Eliya and is easily visible from most areas of the Central Province.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,524 metres
- Description: mountain in Sri Lanka
- Also known as: “Mount Pedro”, “Pedrotalagala”, “Pidurutalogala”, “Piduruthalagala”, and “Straw Plateau Rock”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Galway’s Land National Park and Kikilimana.
Galway’s Land National Park
Evergreen forest
Galways Land National Park is a small 27 ha national park consisting of dense montane forest. It is located within the city limits of Nuwara Eliya in Sri Lanka, approximately 2 km east of the city centre.
Kikilimana
Peak
Kikilimana is a mountain in the Central Province of Sri Lanka. At a summit elevation of 2,240 m, it is the 6th tallest mountain in Sri Lanka, after Pidurutalagala, Kirigalpotta, Totapolakanda, Kudahagala, and Adam's Peak.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nuwara Eliya and Kandapola.
Nuwara Eliya
Photo: Pol van den Scheetek…, CC BY 3.0.
Nuwara Eliya is a city in the Hill Country of Sri Lanka. At 1,868 m altitude, the architecture and temperate climate gives it a very different feel from the rest of the country.
Kandapola
Village
Kandapola is a village in Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka. It is located within the Central Province.
Pidurutalagala
- Categories: mountain, ultra-prominent peak, and landform
- Location: Bambarakele, Nuwara Eliya Divisional Secretariat, Nuwara Eliya District, Central Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
7.00095° or 7° 0′ 3″ northLongitude
80.77365° or 80° 46′ 25″ eastElevation
2,524 metres (8,281 feet)Open location code
6MV22Q2F+9FOpenStreetMap ID
node 2035834190OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Pidurutalagala” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بدرتلاكلة”
- Arabic: “بُدْرُتَلَاكَلَة”
- Basque: “Pidurutalagala”
- Belarusian: “Гара Педра”
- Belarusian: “Гара Підуруталагала”
- Belarusian: “Підуруталагала”
- Bulgarian: “Пидуруталагала”
- Catalan: “Pidurutalagala”
- Cebuano: “Pidurutalagala”
- Chinese: “皮杜魯塔拉格勒山”
- Chinese: “皮杜鲁塔拉格勒山”
- Czech: “Nejvyšší hora Šrí Lanky”
- Czech: “Pidurutalagala”
- Dutch: “Pidurutalagala”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل پيدوروتالاجالا”
- Estonian: “Pidurutalagala”
- French: “Pidurutalagala”
- German: “Mount Pedro”
- German: “Pidurutalagala”
- Greek: “Πιντουρουταλάγκαλα”
- Hebrew: “פידורוטלגלה”
- Hungarian: “Pidurutalágala”
- Italian: “Pidurutalagala”
- Japanese: “ピドゥルタラーガラ山”
- Ladin: “Pidurutalagala”
- Latvian: “Pidurutalāgala”
- Lithuanian: “Pidurutalagala”
- Lombard: “Pidurutalagala”
- Macedonian: “Пидуруталагала”
- Malayalam: “Pidurutalagala”
- Malayalam: “പിഡുരുത്തലഗല കൊടുമുടി”
- Malayalam: “പിഡുരുത്തലഗല”
- Mingrelian: “პიდურუტალაგალა”
- Moroccan Arabic: “پيدوروطالاڭالا”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pidurutalagala”
- Norwegian: “Pidurutalagala”
- Persian: “پیدوروتالاگالا”
- Polish: “Pidurutalagala”
- Portuguese: “Monte Pidurutalagala”
- Portuguese: “Pidurutalagala”
- Russian: “Пидуруталагала”
- Scots: “Pidurutalagala”
- Sinhala: “පිදුරුතලාගල”
- Slovenian: “Mount Pedro”
- Slovenian: “Pidurutalagala”
- Spanish: “Pidurutalagala”
- Swahili: “Pidurutalagala”
- Swedish: “Pidurutalagala”
- Tamil: “பிதுருதலாகல”
- Tamil: “பிதுருதலாகலை”
- Tamil: “பீதுருதலாகாலை”
- Tamil: “பீதுறுதாலகால”
- Ukrainian: “Підуруталагала”
- Ukrainian: “Підуруталаґала”
- Venetian: “Pidurutalagala”
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