What to See and Do at Wilpattu National Park Sri Lanka

Wilpattu National Park is a national park in Sri Lanka. The unique feature of this park is the existence of "Willus" – natural, sand-rimmed water basins or depressions that fill with rainwater. Located on the northwest coast lowland dry zone of Sri Lanka, the park is 30 km west of Anuradhapura and 26 km north of Puttalam. The park is 1,317 km in …
Wilpattu National Park is a national park in Sri Lanka. The unique feature of this park is the existence of "Willus" – natural, sand-rimmed water basins or depressions that fill with rainwater. Located on the northwest coast lowland dry zone of Sri Lanka, the park is 30 km west of Anuradhapura and 26 km north of Puttalam. The park is 1,317 km in area and ranges from 0–152 m above sea level. Nearly one hundred and six lakes and tanks are found spread throughout Wilpattu. Wilpattu is the largest and one of the oldest national parks in Sri Lanka. Wilpattu is world-renowned for its leopard population. A remote camera survey conducted in Wilpattu from July to October 2015 by the Wilderness and Wildlife Conservation Trust captured photographs of forty-nine individual leopards in the surveyed area, the core area density of which was between that of Yala National Park's Block I and Horton Plains National Park.
  • Location: North Western and North Central provinces, Sri Lanka
  • Established: 1905 (Wildlife sanctuary) · 25 December 1938 (National park)
  • Nearest city: Mannar, Anuradhapura, Puttalam
  • Area: 1,316.671km²
  • Governing body: Department of Wildlife Conservation

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