Kalubowila
Kalubowila is a suburb in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It is inside the administration boundary of the Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia Municipal Council. The Colombo South Teaching Hospital is located here.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb with 1,000 residents
- Description: suburb in Western Province, Sri Lanka
- Also known as: “Kalubovila West” and “Kalubowila West”
Places of Interest
Highlights include National Zoological Gardens of Sri Lanka and St. Lawrence’s Church.
National Zoological Gardens of Sri Lanka
Zoo
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 1.0.
National Zoological Gardens of Sri Lanka is a zoological garden in Dehiwala, Sri Lanka, founded in 1936. The Dehiwala Zoo is now known for its mistreatment and poor facilities for the animals that inhabit it.
St. Lawrence’s Church
Church
Photo: AntanO, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St. Lawrence's Church is the seat of the Wellawatte parish of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Colombo. It is located at Galle Road, Wellawatte, Colombo 06.
Lanka Hospitals
Hospital
Lanka Hospital is multi-speciality tertiary care hospital in Sri Lanka and is one of the largest private hospitals in the country. It is a subsidiary of Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation. Lanka Hospitals is situated 2½ km north of Kalubowila.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nugegoda and Dehiwala.
Nugegoda
Town
Photo: Honeplus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nugegoda is a large, densely populated suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka. It is located just south of Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte/Maharagama and north-east of Dehiwela Mt. Lavinia. It has a population of over 250,000 people.
Dehiwala
Town
Dehiwala is a suburban area in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It lies within the administrative boundaries of Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia Municipal Council. It is known for the zoo which houses thousands of animals and hundreds of species.
Nawala
Village
Photo: Honeplus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nawala is an up-market residential suburb of Colombo, within the Kotte municipality in the western province of Sri Lanka, and is approximately 6 km south of Colombo City. Nawala is situated 3½ km northeast of Kalubowila.
Kalubowila
- Categories: human-geographic territorial entity and locality
- Location: Hathbodhiya, Dehiwala Divisional Secretariat, Colombo District, Western Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
6.86646° or 6° 51′ 59″ northLongitude
79.87729° or 79° 52′ 38″ eastPopulation
1,000Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)Open location code
6JRXVV8G+HWOpenStreetMap ID
node 129616333OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
1242067Wikidata ID
Q27962978
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In Other Languages
From French to Urdu—“Kalubowila” goes by many names.
- French: “Kalubowila”
- Persian: “کالوبوویلا”
- Spanish: “Kalubowila”
- Urdu: “کالوبویلا”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sri Sunandarama Temple and Colombo South Teaching Hospital.
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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 “Kalubowila”. Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.