Why visit Wilapatu
- Invaluable heritage and wildlife
- Wilpattu is Sri Lanka's largest national park and a refuge for elephant, leopard and sloth bear.
- The mammalian diversity and ecological densities are highest.
The Wilpattu National Park park covers an area of over 131,000 hectares. Elephants, leopards, sloth bear, water buffalo and spotted deer are among the large mammals. The coastal belt and willus support abundant birdlife such as Painted storks, White ibis, Open bill storks, Whistling teals, Spoonbills, Cormorants and Kingfishers. Apart from them Serpent eagles, Great racket tail Drongo, Malabar pied hornbills, Crested hawk eagles and Sri Lanka junglefowls are commonly seen. Both water monitors and mugger crocodiles can be seen in the willus. The vegetation dominated by tree species such as Palu (Manilkara hexandra), Weera (Drypetes sepiaria) & Satin (Chloroxylon swietenia). Milla (Vitex altissima), Ebony (Diospyros ebenum) and Wewarana (Alseodaphne semecaprifolia) are also found in fair numbers.
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