Wilpattu National Park

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Wilpattu National Park
Wilpattu National Park
IUCN category II (national park)
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A black-winged stilt in Wilpattu National Park
Map showing the location of Wilpattu National Park Map showing the location of Wilpattu National Park
Location 185km away from Colombo, North Western and North Central provinces, Sri Lanka
Nearest city Anuradhapura
Coordinates 8°26′N 80°00′E
Area 131667.1 ha
Established December 25, 1938
Governing body Department of Wildlife Conservation
Wilpattu National Park (Willu-pattu; Land of Lakes) is a park located on the island of Sri Lanka. The unique feature of this park is the existence of "Willus" (Natural lakes) - Natural, sand-rimmed water basins or depressions that fill with rainwater. Located in the Northwest coast lowland dry zone of Sri Lanka. The park is located 30 km west Anuradhapura and located 26 km north of Puttalam (approximately 180 km north of Colombo). The park is 131, 693 hectares and ranges from 0 to 152 meters above sea level. Nearly sixty lakes (Willu) and tanks are found spread throughout Wilpattu. Wilpattu is the largest and one of the oldest National Parks in Sri Lanka. Wilpattu is among the top national parks world-renowned for its leopard (Panthera pardus kotiya) population. A remote camera survey was conducted in Wilpattu from July to October 2015 by the Wilderness & Wildlife Conservation Trust. A sample of forty nine individual leopards were photo-captured in the surveyed area and the core area density was between that of Yala National Park's Block I and Horton Plains National Park.