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Mahaweli Ganga
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Mahaweli River.
The Mahaweli River (Sinhala: මහවැලි ගඟ, literally "Great Sandy River"; Tamil: மகாவலி ஆறு [mahawali gangai]), is a 335-kilometre-long (208-mile) river, ranking as the longest river in Sri Lanka. It has a drainage basin of 10,448 km (4,034 sq mi), the largest in the country, which covers almost one-fifth of the total area of the island. Though the Mahaweli Ganga originated beginning at Horton plains Kirigalpoththa, the namely starts at Polwathura (in the Mahawilla area), a remote village of Nuwara EliyaDistrict in bank Nawalapitiya of KandyDistrict by further joining of Hatton Oya and Kotmale Oya. The river reaches the Bay of Bengal on the southwestern side of Trincomalee Bay. The bay includes the first of a number of submarine canyons, making Trincomalee one of the finest natural deep-sea harbours in the world.