Mahara
Mahara is an old town in the Gampaha District in the Western Province in Sri Lanka. It is situated along the A 1 highway.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb with 15,000 residents
- Description: town in Gampaha, Sri Lanka
- Also known as: “Mahara, Sri Lanka”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sapugaskanda Refinery.
Sapugaskanda Refinery
The Sapugaskanda Refinery is the single largest oil refinery of Sri Lanka. The refinery was built in August 1969 by the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation under the guidance of Iran, initially designed to process 38,000 barrels per stream day. Sapugaskanda Refinery is situated 3½ km southeast of Mahara.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dalupitiya and Kadawatha.
Dalupitiya
Hamlet
Dalupitiya is a small village situated in the western part of Sri Lanka. The distance to Colombo, the commercial capital of Sri Lanka, is about 10 miles from Kirimetiyagara. The closest city to Dalupitiya is Kadawatha, which is on the Kandy Road.
Kadawatha
Town
Kadawatha is a large suburb of Gampaha, in the Western Province, Sri Lanka. It is situated on the A1 highway, approximately 16 km away from the centre of Colombo.
Eldeniya
Village
Photo: X-mas 123, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Eldeniya is a village located in Kadawatha, Gampaha District, Sri Lanka. Eldeniya is situated 3½ km northeast of Mahara.
Mahara
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Kirimetiyagara, Mahara Divisional Secretariat, Gampaha District, Western Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
6.9913° or 6° 59′ 29″ northLongitude
79.93938° or 79° 56′ 22″ eastPopulation
15,000Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)United Nations Location Code
LK MRAOpen location code
6JRXXWRQ+GPOpenStreetMap ID
node 1840750860OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Tamil—“Mahara” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Mahara, Sri Lanka”
- French: “Mahara”
- Irish: “Mahara”
- Persian: “ماهارا (سریلانکا)”
- Persian: “ماهارا”
- Sinhala: “මහර”
- Tamil: “மஹாரா”
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Highlights include Pahala Biyanwila Sri Pushparama Viharaya and Buddha Statue.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mahara”. Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.