Kantalai
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Kantalai (; ) is a town in the Trincomalee District in eastern Sri Lanka. The town is located south-west of Trincomalee.
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It sits within the topics Kantalai DS Division and Towns in Trincomalee District.
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- Locality
- Kantale
- Region
- Eastern Province
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Population
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- human settlement
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Located in
- Trincomalee District
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- Kantalai Tank, Sri Lanka.jpg
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Kantalai (; ) is a town in the Trincomalee District in eastern Sri Lanka. The town is located south-west of Trincomalee.
According to the ancient chronicle, Mahavamsa, Kantale Tank, also named "Gangathala Vapi", is credited as being built by Aggabodhi the II (606–618) and rehabilitated and developed by Parakramabahu the Great (1153–1186). 3,750 hectares. Constructed for the irrigation of crops in this arid region, its source of water is the Mahaweli River, the longest in the island, which flows out to the sea at Trincomalee.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kantalai” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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