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| navigate by keyword : mahaweli ganga sandy flows central eastern sri lanka length longest river rises hatton plateau western side hill country rubber growing region turns kandy lowlands principal tributary amban polonnaruwa mouth koddiyar bay south trincomalee great rocks luxury vegetation green forest |
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| Mahaweli Ganga, (Sinhalese: 'Great Sandy River') flows in the central and eastern Sri Lanka. At 208 miles (335 km) in length, it is Sri Lanka's longest river. It rises on the Hatton Plateau on the western side of the island's hill country, flows north through a tea- and rubber-growing region, and turns east near Kandy it then turns north across the lowlands, receives its principal tributary, the Amban Ganga, and flows past Polonnaruwa to its mouth on Koddiyar Bay, 7 miles south of Trincomalee. |
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