Sinharaja rain forest 🏞️🌿

 The Sinharaja tropical wet every green forest.One of nature's masterpieces, borders Ratnaura, Galle and Matara districts.The sinharaja forest with an area of 11187 hectares is bordered in each direction as follows.




South : Gin river and stream

North : Napola river and Kosgulana river

West : Kalukandawa canal and Kudawa river

East : Morninside estate

There are also 4 main roads to enter the sinharaja forest.Below are the four routes.

Deniyaya - Pallegama road

Kalawana - Veddagala road

Rakwana - Morninside road

Hiniduma - Neluwa road

There are 5 peaks in the Sinharaja forest which are more than 600 meters high.The highest point of Sinharaja is mount Hinipitigala which is situated at a height of 1171 m.Below are the five highest peaks of Sinharaja

Kosgulana

Sinhagala

Moola Sand

Hinipitigala - East

Hinipitigala - West


The Sinharaja forest area receives 3000 - 6000 mm of rainfall.The annual temperature of the area is in the range of 18 - 27 degrees celsius.Due to the good rainfall in this area, several beautiful waterfalls have been created.Brahmana fall, Dust fall and pig fall are some of the water falls.

This biodiversity ecosystem has a plant density of about 240,000 per hectare.Out of 340 species of woody plants found here, 192 species are endemic to Sri Lanka. Of these 192 species, 15 are found only in the Sinharaja forest.About 75% of the plants here are endemic to Sri Lanka.
















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