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Full name:Rattota Town

CC_FIPS :CE

REGION:4

SUB_REGION:4D

UFI:2235175

UNI :3087967

DSG:PPL

CC_ISO :LK

FULL_NAME_ND :Rattota Town

SORT_NAME :RATTOTATOWN

ADM1_CODE :29

ADM1_FULL_NAME: Central

ADM1_FULL_NAME_ND:Central

LATITUDE:7.5216667

LONGITUDE:80.6847222

DMS_LATITUDE:73118

DMS_LONGITUDE: 804105

UTM:MP63

JOG:NB44-02

Rattota (Central, Sri Lanka)

Rattota is a populated place in Central, which is a region of Sri Lanka. An overview map of the region around Rattota is displayed below.
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airports close to Rattota, Sri Lanka ::
The closest airport is CMB - Bandaranaike Intl Colombo, located 96.1 km south west of Rattota. More nearby airports include GOY - Galoya Amparai 105.9 km east, RML - Colombo Ratmalana 117.3 km south west, TRR - Trinciomalee China Bay 125.1 km north east,
places near Rattota, Sri Lanka ::
// 0.6km to Bodikotuwa // 1.3km to Kohilawatta // 1.3km to Narangolla // 2.1km to Kuruwawa // 2.1km to Mellagola // 2.1km to Nikawella // 2.1km to Walatalawa // 2.1km to Dankanda // 2.1km to Hemagahahena // 2.1km to Kirimetiya // 2.1km to Polwattekanda // 2.4km to Clodagh Eastern Colony // 2.4km to Hunuketa // 2.4km to Paragahamada // 2.4km to Polwatta Colony // 2.4km to Maradurawala // 2.9km to Dikkumbura // 2.9km to Madakumbura // 2.9km to Maussagolla // 2.9km to Wadakahamada // 3.1km to Bogambara // 3.1km to Galekoluwa // 3.1km to Pallegama // 3.2km to Palleaswedduma // 3.6km to Sirangahawatta // 3.6km to Weralugastenna // 3.7km to Opalgalawatta // 3.7km to Raitalawa // 3.9km to Gurubebila [all distances 'as the bird flies' and approximate]

A school few miles away from rattota,Elephants in pinnawela,polannaruwa chaithya

Butterflies of srilanka

Butterflies of Sri Lanka

244 species of butterflies occur in Sri Lanka, of which about 20 are endemics. Their habitats range from the hottest areas in the arid zones to the coolest areas in the forested hills. Some butterflies can be seen all year round while others are seasonal. In size, they range from the large, aptly named Bird-wing butterfly to the tiny, just as aptly named, Grass Jewel.

The highest number of species of butterflies occur in the foothills up to 3000 feet elevation. About half a dozen species occur above 4000 feet. Twenty species are strictly confined to the dry zone below 500 feet. There are two major seasons in which the butterfly numbers peak. These correspond to the onset of the south-west monsoon in March-April and the north-east monsoon in September-October.
The eleven families found in Sri Lanka are Danaidae, Satyridae, Amathusiidae, Nymphalidae, Acraeidea, Libytheidae, Riodinidae, Lycaenidae, Pieridae, Papilionidae and Hesperiidae.

Distribution of natural forest cover in Sri Lanka.

Distribution of Tropical Rain Forests in Africa and Asia.

Around 150 to 200 years ago, tropical rain forests stretched as an unbroken green belt over the humid tropics, in three main blocks in the. Amazonian, African and Far-Eastern regions. Today they are greatly reduced and are in a fragmented state. The rain forests of Sri Lanka belong to the Far-Eastern group which includes the rain forests of South and South-East Asia. The centre of this block is the Malayan Archipelago stretching eastward to New Guinea. Although, the rain forests of south-west Sri Lanka share many features common to this group, they also contain elements that are peculiar to themselves alone.The origin of Sri Lankan rain forests . and their unique species composition i.e. a large proportion of endemics, have been explained in relation to the island's geological history. During the Paleozoic era. Sri Lanka was part of the Southern super continent or Gondwanaland. About 140 million years ago this continent began to break up and 55 million years ago, during the mid - Cretaceous period, the fragment known as the Deccan Plate which comprised India and Sri Lanka drifted off towards the equator to collide with the Northern continent of Laurasia. Under equatorial climatic conditions, a tropical community was established on the Dec-can Plate. These conditions however did not remain stable, for continuous fluctuations of climate and sea level in the tropics occurred during the Glacial and Inter-glacial periods. With the submersion of the land connection with the Indian subcontinent 20 million years ago, Sri Lanka separated out as an island. Since then, temporary land connections with the subcontinent have been formed from time to time. The Glacial periods have resulted in alternating climatic conditions of ever-wet and seasonally dry, cool weather prevailing on the island. .As these occurred, rain forests expanded over to the mainland and contracted back into the ever-wet pockets we have today.The rain forest species presently found in Sri Lanka therefore have affinities to Gondwanic flora and fauna as well as to those of the Deccan Plate. While some elements may have been maintained without change, others have evolved into new plants and animals. From a biogeographic point of view therefore the species found in the rain forests of Sri Lanka are of extraordinary interest, a fact which has still not been widely recognized. Together with the rain forests of the Mascarene Islands (Rodriguez, Reunion and Mauritius), East Madagascar, the Seychelles, and the Andamans, the rain forests of Sri Lanka represent* the few surviving links between the rain forests of one major block, (the African) and another (South-East Asian).