Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage
Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage, is a captive breeding and conservation institute for wild Asian elephants located at Pinnawala village, 13 km northeast of Kegalle town in Sabaragamuwa Province of Sri Lanka.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Zoo
- Description: elephant orphanage in Sri Lanka
- Address: Karandupana-Rambukkana Road, Pinnawala
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Rambukkana railway station.
Rambukkana railway station
Railway station
Photo: Alexey Komarov, CC BY 3.0.
Rambukkana Railway Station is a railway station in the Kegalle District, Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka. The station is served by Sri Lanka Railways, which is the state-run railway operator. Rambukkana railway station is situated 2½ km north of Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pinnawala and Rambukkana.
Pinnawala
Village
Pinnawala is a village in Kegalle District of Sri Lanka and is around 90 km from the capital, Colombo. It is well known for its elephant orphanage.
Rambukkana
Town
'Rambukkana', Pradeshiya Sabha, lies within the Kegalle district in Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka. The Council was incorporated on 7 July 1991 as Rambukkana ward and a few small towns. Rambukkana is situated 3 km north of Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage.
Molagoda
Village
Molagoda is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within Sabaragamuwa Province. Molagoda is situated 5 km south of Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage.
Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage
- Categories: orphanage, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Pinnawala, Rambukkana Divisional Secretariat, Kegalle District, Sabaragamuwa, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
7.30051° or 7° 18′ 2″ northLongitude
80.38719° or 80° 23′ 14″ eastOpen location code
6MV2892P+6VOpenStreetMap ID
node 1105822183OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=zooWikidata ID
Q2672104
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In Other Languages
From Hausa to Ukrainian—“Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage” goes by many names.
- Hausa: “Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage”
- Japanese: “ピンナワラのゾウの孤児園”
- Japanese: “ピンナワラのゾウの孤児院”
- Malayalam: “പിന്നവാല എലിഫന്റ് ഓർഫനേജ്”
- Polish: “Pinnawala Sierociniec Słoni”
- Russian: “Приют для слонов Пиннавела”
- Sinhala: “පින්නවල අලි අනාථාගාරය”
- Slovenian: “Sirotišnica za slone Pinnawala”
- Spanish: “Orfanato de elefantes de Pinnawala”
- Tamil: “பின்னவலை யானைகள் புகலகம்”
- Tamil: “பின்னவள யானைகள் அனாதைமடம்”
- Ukrainian: “Притулок для слонів Піннавела”
- “Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ticket Counter and Tourist Police Pinnawalla.
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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 “Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage”. Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.