Mabola
Mabola or Mabole is a town and Urban Council in Gampaha District in the Western Province of Sri Lanka. With Wattala it forms Wattala–Mabola urban council.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet with 500 residents
- Description: urban Council in Western Province, Sri Lanka
- Also known as: “Mabola, Sri Lanka” and “Mabole”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Yugadanavi Power Station and St. Anthony’s College, Wattala.
Yugadanavi Power Station
Power station
Photo: Rehman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Yugadanavi Power Station is a large oil-fired power station in Sri Lanka. The 300 MW power station is located in Kerawalapitiya, in the Western Province of Sri Lanka. Yugadanavi Power Station is situated 2½ km west of Mabola.
St. Anthony’s College, Wattala
School
St. Anthony's College, Wattala is a catholic boys' school in Wattala, Sri Lanka.
Aitken Spence Power Station
Power station
The Aitken Spence Power Station is a municipal solid waste-fired thermal power station in Kerawalapitiya, Sri Lanka. It was originally planned to be built at Meethotamulla, the site of a large solid waste landfill which was under international media spotlight after the 2017 Meethotamulla garbage landslide which killed over 30 people. Aitken Spence Power Station is situated 3 km northwest of Mabola.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wattala and Ragama.
Wattala
Town
Wattala is a large suburb of Gampaha district, in Western Province, Sri Lanka, situated around 9 km from Colombo city centre. This suburb is situated on A3 highway from Colombo to Negombo.
Ragama
Town
Ragama is an outer suburb of Colombo, located in the Gampaha District, Western Province, Sri Lanka. It is governed by the Ja-Ela Divisional Secretariat. Ragama is situated 4 km northeast of Mabola.
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. Dalupitiya is situated 4 km east of Mabola.
Mabola
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Mabola, Wattala Divisional Secretariat, Gampaha District, Western Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
7.00492° or 7° 0′ 18″ northLongitude
79.8969° or 79° 53′ 49″ eastPopulation
500Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)Open location code
6JVX2V3W+XQOpenStreetMap ID
node 1957995265OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
1237517Wikidata ID
Q6721619
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Urdu—“Mabola” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Mabola, Sri Lanka”
- Persian: “مابولا (سریلانکا)”
- Persian: “مابولا”
- Sinhala: “මාබෝල”
- Urdu: “مابولا، سری لنکا”
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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 “Mabola”. Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.