Beach · Kosgoda · Southern Coast
Where Five Turtle Species Nest
Kosgoda Beach — 1 km south of Kosgoda village
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A nesting beach with four decades of hatchery records, releasing up to 10,000 hatchlings in a year.
The nesting beach at Kosgoda, 76 km south of Colombo, used by five of the world's seven marine turtle species: green, olive ridley, loggerhead, hawksbill and leatherback. A hatchery has operated here since 1981, and the 2004 tsunami surged more than a mile inland before the project reopened in March 2005.
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6.3378° N, 80.0241° EOSM
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