Unawatuna
Unawatuna is a beach resort town in southern Sri Lanka 5 km south of Galle. It can be seen as its suburb, a bustling little community of guest houses, cafes, markets, crafts and bars. The main beach is swimmable year round.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Unawatuna Beach and Closenberg Hotel.
Closenberg Hotel
Hotel
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Closenberg Hotel is a three star heritage hotel located in Galle, Sri Lanka. It is situated on the southern side of Galle Harbour.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Galle.
Galle
Photo: Saqib, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Galle is in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka. Galle's old town with its fortifications have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Unawatuna
- Type: Suburb with 10,000 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Habaraduwa Divisional Secretariat, Galle District, Southern Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
6.0202° or 6° 1′ 13″ northLongitude
80.2475° or 80° 14′ 51″ eastPopulation
10,000Elevation
13 metres (43 feet)Open location code
6MR226CW+3XOpenStreetMap ID
node 1982730857OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
1225514Wikidata ID
Q651301
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Urdu—“Unawatuna” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “উনাওয়াতুনা”
- Cebuano: “Unawatuna”
- Dutch: “Unawatuna”
- French: “Unawatuna”
- German: “Unawatuma Bay”
- German: “Unawatuna Bay”
- German: “Unawatuna”
- Irish: “Unawatuna”
- Italian: “Unawatuna”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Unawatuna”
- Norwegian: “Unawatuna”
- Persian: “اوناواتونا”
- Russian: “Унаватуна”
- Sinhala: “උණවටුන”
- Swedish: “Unawatuna”
- Tamil: “உனவட்டுனை”
- Tamil: “උණවටුන”
- Urdu: “اناواتونا”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Unawatuna”. Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.