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The Kumana National Park is famous for its lagoons (Bagura, Andarakalei, Itikala, Yakkala) and the plains . The park, still called East Yala, is also famous for its amazing bird diversity . The park was abandoned for decades because of the internal conflict in Sri Lanka, but now has a new life and regains its former glory and popularity . Now the bungalows are being built in the regions of Tummulla, Kirigaleb, Okanda, and also camping sites along Kambukkan Oya . Maximum number of people in the campsite , which with Oguta be there up to 3 days - is 10 people . planned to build a tourist center near the entrance to the park in Okanda .

park covers 35,664 hectares of land and is located in 391 km from Colombo. In 2006, it was renamed from Eastern Yal in the Kumana National Park.

A special attraction is Kumana Villu - a 200 hectare lake fed by the Kambukkan Oya River . In the mangroves of Kumana Villu, from May to June one can observe the breeding of a large number of chicks the inhabitants of the park . Among the observed bird species in Kumana there are pelicans, colorful storks, spoonbills, white ibises, herons, herons, and hundreds of small cormorants . Very rare storks with a black neck can also be found in Kumana . Total in Cumana you can find up to 255 bird species, and during April and July, annually, tens of thousands of birds migrate to the Kumana Creek .

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Nature of the Kumana National Park

The park is also inhabited by an Indian crocodile, a shell tortoise, an Indian black turtle. Here you can find leopards. Vegetation in Kumana consists mainly of mangroves, trees of a kamboo and a fern of a karan, and also there it is possible to find marshy terrain. A total of 400 species of birds can be observed in Sri Lanka, 230 of which are residents of the island, and 23 are endemic species, that is, only in Sri Lanka.

Among the attractions of the park is Kiri Pokuna - a small pond that serves as a source water during the dry season and one kilometer away there is a small rock in the forest, called Kiri Pokuna Hela, in which a cave is found, overgrown with many legends and on its walls one can see ancient inscriptions of Buddhist monks who lived here thousands of years ago.