Maruthamunai
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Maruthamunai மருதமுனை මරදමුනේ |
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 Maruthamunai
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| Coordinates: 7°25′00″N 81°49′00″E / 7.41667°N 81.81667°ECoordinates: 7°25′00″N 81°49′00″E / 7.41667°N 81.81667°E | |
| Country | Sri Lanka |
| Province | Eastern Province, Sri Lanka |
| District | Ampara District |
| Divisional Secretariat | Kalmunai |
| Government | |
| • Type | Kalmunai Municipal Council |
| Population | |
| • Total | 13,948 |
| Time zone | Sri Lanka Standard Time (UTC+5:30) |
| • Summer (DST) | Summer time (UTC+6) |
| Postal Code | 32314 |
Maruthamunai (Tamil: மருதமுனை, Sinhalese: මරදමුනේ ) Is a coastal village located along the eastern coastline, about 358 kilometres away from the capital city, Colombo. The Village has an estimated population of 13,948, predominantly Muslims. Maruthamunai Located in Kalmunai, Ampara District in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. Maruthamunai was a village that is mostly dominated by Tamil speaking Muslims. The education in Maruthamunai contains a very high standard and is very competitive among the other cities.
Maruthamunai was one of the villages most severely affected in Sri Lanka by the Indian Ocean Tsunami on 26 December 2004. The disaster killed 922 residents of the village, displaced 11,086 , 1,391 houses were completely destroyed and 1,359 were partially damaged. Previous to the disaster the population of the village was officially 17,393. In addition to over 1,300 homes, many public buildings were destroyed by the tsunami.
The primitive history of Maruthamunai village is entirely different from the history of the muslim villages in the South - East region of Sri Lanka. The ancestral Muslims of Maruthamunai had settled in Thuraineelavanai village in the Southern boundary of the Batticaloa District, some 6oo years ago. After a lapse of few years of living there, those Muslims mutually replaced the Tamils lived in Maruthamunai.
Maruthamunai is a beautiful village in the Ampara District of the South - Eastern region of Sri Lanka, bounded on the North by Periyaneelavanai village, on the West by paddy fields together with the river bed of the Batticaloa Lagoon, on the South by another conventional village - Pandiruppu, and on the East by the Bay of Bengal of the Indian Ocean. Maruthamunai had an extent area of 2.11 square kilometers and a Muslim population of about twenty thousand in 2004 A.D. This number is believed to have been decreased into 4/5 portion due to the Indian Ocean tsunami on 2004.12.26 on Sunday.
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