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Nallur Kandaswamy Temple
Jaffna's principal Hindu temple, a golden-gopuram Murugan shrine rebuilt in 1734 after Portuguese destruction. Men must remove their shirts to enter; the August festival draws vast crowds.
27 km · about 30 min drive
AsiaSri LankaNorthern Province
Point Pedro
Northern Province, Sri Lanka · Asia
About Point Pedro
Point Pedro is worth a stop: 15 minutes from Valvedditturai, 27km from Nallur Kandaswamy Temple.
Point Pedro is in Northern Province, Sri Lanka, with about 90,000 people. The nearest town is Valvedditturai, about 7 km away.
Point Pedro, also known as Paruthithurai (Tamil: பருத்தித்துறை, romanized: Paruttittuṟai; Sinhala: පේදුරු තුඩුව, romanized: Pēduru Tuḍuva) is a town, located in Jaffna District, Sri Lanka, at the northernmost point of the island.
Cotton is produced around Point Pedro in the fertile calcic red latosol soils. TheRead more
eastern coast of Point Pedro forms a 3 mile wide, 20 mile long beach with sand dunes up to 100 feet high, extending to Thalayady. The porous soil has a water table deep underground with an estimated one billion litres of fresh water. The Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 raised the salt content of the ground water. The tsunami destroyed parts of the town and submerged some parts with seawater up to 4 feet deep.
The town came briefly under the control of the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) during the early 1990s, until the Sri Lankan Army recaptured it in 1995.
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Within an hour or so of Point Pedro: Nallur Kandaswamy Temple (27 km).
Where is Point Pedro?
Point Pedro is in Northern Province, Sri Lanka, about 7 km from Valvedditturai.
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- Population
- 89,810
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Region
- Northern Province
- Timezone
- Asia/Colombo
- Coordinates
- 9.8167, 80.2333
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