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Somawathiya National Park : ウィキペディア英語版 | Somawathiya National Park
Somawathiya National Park is one of the four national parks designated under the Mahaweli River development project.〔Senarathna 2004: p. 166〕 Somawathiya Chaitya, a stupa said to be containing a relic of the tooth of the Buddha, is situated within the park.〔 The park was created on 2 September 1986, having been originally designated a wildlife sanctuary on 9 August 1966. The park is home to many megaherbivores. The national park is located north-east of Colombo. ==Physical features== Somawathiya National Park lies in the deltaic flood plains of the Mahaweli River and contains the junction where it is forked into two branches.〔 The two branches are the Mahaweli River, which flows north into Koddiyar bay and the lesser Verugal Oya which flows north-east into the sea. The central riparian flood plain is featured by many old river channels and contain dispersed 'villus', the waterfilled basins around among the grassy plains. There are 20 such villus is located in the park. Somawathiya and Flood plains national parks are important protected areas for the wetland system of Mahaweli River flood plains. The high quality habitat of fertile alluvial underlying layer supports a plentiful wildlife.〔
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