Sri Lanka
North Western Province
Puttalam District

Kalpitiya

Kalpitiya is a coastal town located in western region of . The Kalpitiya peninsula consists of a total fourteen islands. It is developing as a tourist destination.
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Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
  • Type: Village with 5,000 residents
  • Description: place in North Western, Sri Lanka
  • Also known as: “Kalpitya”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kalpitiya fort and Dutch Reformed Church.

Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
was built by the Dutch between 1667 and 1676. Kalpitiya was important as it commands the entrance to the adjacent bay, . The surrounding area was one of the major cinnamon cultivation areas in .

Church
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
The is located between the Dutch and the village of Kalpitiya. The church was built by the Dutch in 1706 and is a smaller version of the church in the Matara fort. It is one of the oldest Protestant churches in the country.

Kalpitiya

Latitude
8.2368° or 8° 14′ 13″ north
Longitude
79.7662° or 79° 45′ 58″ east
Population
5,000
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
IATA airport code
DBK
United Nations Location Code
LK KAL
Open location code
6JWX6QP8+PF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1150550162
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
1242089
Wiki­data ID
Q14220105
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Tamil—“Kalpitiya” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كالبيتيا”
  • Bengali: “কালপিটিয়া”
  • Catalan: “Kalpitiya”
  • Chinese: “卡尔皮蒂耶”
  • Chinese: “卡爾皮蒂耶”
  • Dutch: “Kalpitiya”
  • German: “Kalpitiya”
  • Irish: “Kalpitiya”
  • Japanese: “カルピティヤ”
  • Persian: “کالپیتیا”
  • Russian: “Калпития”
  • Sinhala: “කල්පිටිය”
  • Tamil: “கல்பிட்டிய”

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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 “Kalpitiya”. Photo: A.Savin, FAL.