Gintota is a village situated in
Galle District, in the southern part of
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
.
It is located south of
Colombo and north-west of
Galle and is situated on the left bank of the
Gin Ganga
The Gin Ganga ( si, ගිං ගඟ, ''Gin River''), is a long river situated in Galle District of Sri Lanka.
The river's headwaters are located in the Gongala Mountain range, near Deniyaya, bordering the Sinharaja Forest Reserve. The rive ...
, at the river's mouth.
The traditional industry in the area was coconut cultivation and the manufacture of
coir rope from the fibre of the coconut husk.
On 22 November 1941 the government established a
plywood
Plywood is a material manufactured from thin layers or "plies" of wood veneer that are glued together with adjacent layers having their wood grain rotated up to 90 degrees to one another. It is an engineered wood from the family of manufactured ...
factory at Gintota, to manufacture plywood tea chests and other plywood products, as their supply was restricted during the
war. In 1957 the factory was made a corporation, under the State Industrial Corporations Act. In 1994 it was privatised.
The village is serviced by the
Ginthota railway station, which is on the
Coast railway line, running between
Colombo and
Beliatta
Beliatta is a town located in the Hambantota District of Sri Lanka.
Geography
It is an inland town, approximately, from the coastal town of Tangalle. Beliatta has the second highest mountain range located in the Beliatta Divisional Secretari ...
.
References
Populated places in Southern Province, Sri Lanka
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