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2. Negombo Lagoon - Wikipedia

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   Negombo Lagoon is a large estuarine lagoon in Negombo, south-west Sri Lanka . The lagoon is fed by a number of small rivers and the Hamilton Canal (also known as the Dutch canal). It is linked to the sea by a narrow channel to the north, near Negombo city. It is surrounded by a densely populated region containing rice paddies, coconut ...

3. Jetwing Hotels - Wikipedia

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   Jetwing Hotels Management Services (Private) Limited. Website. jetwinghotels .com. Jetwing Hotels Limited is a Sri Lankan hotel chain. Jetwing was founded in the 1970s by Herbert Cooray when he purchased the Blue Oceanic Hotel in Negombo from its Swedish owner Vingressor and renamed it Jetwing. [2] Cooray founded Jetwing Travels in 1981. [3]

4. Muthurajawela wetlands - Wikipedia

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   Muthurajawela is a marsh in Sri Lanka in the southern region of the Negombo lagoon, 30 km (19 mi) north of Colombo. The Muthurajawela Marshes are 3,068 ha (7,580 acres) in area and the country's largest saline coastal peat bog. [1] The marsh is notable for its unique and highly diverse ecosystem and is listed as one of 12 priority wetlands in ...

5. Jetwing Vil Uyana - Wikipedia

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   Jetwing Vil Uyana is owned and operated by the Sri Lankan hotel chain Jetwing Hotels. The hotel was built in 2006 by converting an abandoned paddy field into an artificial wetland. Environmental architect Sunela Jayawardena designed the hotel. The hotel is known for its sustainability. In 2023, Condé Nast Traveller listed the hotel among the ...

6. St. Andrew's Hotel - Wikipedia

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   The St. Andrew's Hotel (known as Jetwing St. Andrew's) is a luxury hotel in Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka, built adjoining the Nuwara Eliya golf course. History [ edit ] The first building on the property was constructed in 1875, [1] part of land gifted to a British colonial civil servant by the Crown. [2]

7. Negombo fort - Wikipedia

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   1665 Map of Negombo fort. In its time the fort at Negombo was probably the next in strategic importance after Colombo, Jaffna and Galle. The original Portuguese fort was a weak structure, which, according to the account of João Ribeyro; "Negombo was only a square enclosed by walls, with two redoubts and five guns.