Bounded on the north, the east the south west by modara gam aru river and the north centrel province, mathale and kandy districts, maha oya and the coastal belt between kudiramale and wennappuwa respectively ,stands our province in all its grace as the 5th of its kind in size.
Our province consists of two administrative districts namely kurunagala and puththalam,with a total area of 7888.2 square kilometers, this is 12% of the total exent of the island.
15% of the island's coastal belt belongs to the NWP. Flowing across the NWP are four of the main rivers,'mee oya' ,'Daduru oya',Maha oya,'kala oya', not too far away is the capital of the NWP from the main airports of the srilanka.
The climate of wayamba is tropical ,with a marked dry season,and temperature averaging 22C- 26C. The south of the province is wetter, with almost 2000mm of rainfal per year.
The NWP claims to stand 3rd of agricultural areas of srilanka the total extent of paddy cultivated lands is 54,692 hectares. The approximate paddy production is around 521,264 metric tons.paddy is cultivated in two seasons called'' yala'(from aprill to august) and 'maha'(from octomber to january). Kurunegala is a leading paddy producting district in srilanka
Enriching the economy of the NWP are the industries associated with coconuts plantation. Out of such industries,coir industry takesa prominent place.a by product of coir industry,coir dust has become a major foreign exchange earner.coir dust which is exported to the middle eastern and europe countries as a moisture restoring agent is formed into cubes at special factories scattered all over the coconut triangle.
visiting places of historical
King of dambadeniya
The well known kingdom that had remained the capital of lanka for over a period of fifty two years can be found located bordering the kurunagala -negambo main road midway between the sub urban towns of narammala and giriulla.its inception can be considered as a preliminary step for our ancient kingdoms to migrate towards the south- west,
Since our ancient kings had a great responsibility to protect their kingdom from foreign invasions, the selection of the dambadeniya pasd as a rocky fortress by king vijayabahu became a reality.sources of tourist attraction in dambadeniya include the followin.
Maliga gala
About 600ft in height, the rocky castle premises with ruins of ancient buildings and ponds on tap of the rock.
Waduwaketugala(the rock)
it is about 0.5 mile off dambadeniya on colombo kurunagala road. around 500ft high. According to legends the top of the rock had prison cells at the time of kings.the name"waduwaketugala" is after an imprisoned sculptor who had cut steps down the rock surface for his escape.
Kathgala(pingo rock)
yet another of the rocky ring around dambadeniya kingdom is kathgala so named after a regular process of offering pingo loads of gifts by the king's guests brought for the king being done on to of the kathgala.
Gal ugula(stone trap)
One getting to the top of the rock catches sight of a rock trap the could be levered to roll down the steep rock surface to block the passage of any enemy troops.
Kingdom of yapahuwa
In the process of implementing protection practices by our kings against foreign invasions,the origin of yapahuwa kingdom becomes a reality after dambadeniya.yapahuwa kingdom is associated with the famous yapahuwa mountain which used to be a buddhist monastery before becoming a fortress,according to cave well inscription and "bhrami" scripts on top of the mountain. It was yapahuwa fortress that has given protection to king parskramabahu 2 against invasion of a foreign king called chandrabanu.
One can reach the ancient kingdom of yapahuwa by road,after driving about 47 kms, along kurunagala anuradhapura highway upto daladagama junction where a right turn will lead further about 3 1/2 km along a byroad passing through the sub urban town of maho ,which is better known for its railway intersection. The kingdom as in the case of all kingdom consists of an outer city and an inner city ,seperated by a rampart and a moat. Except for pieces of bricks and tiles seen scattered here and there within the premises,no clear remnants can be noticed.but a special feature is that ponds unseen in the inner city can be seen outside.
The moat of metree deep and 18ms.wide has been constructed preventing entrance from the right the side. A mud moat had also been there in addition to the water moat the rampart of 22mts.wide and 4mts high had been constructed interior to the moat.
Kingdom of kurunegala
Known in ancient times as hasthishailapura due to a rock in the middle of the city with the shape of an elephant .presently kurunagala claiming to be a derivative of "hasthishailapura" which in pure sinhala means "the city of the rock like an elephant" the internal crisis situations that arose in an elephant" the internal crisis situations that arose in dambadeniya kingdom had led to shifting of dambadeniya to yapahuwa for more security.but as the the protection expected there for the kings was inadequate against the invasion threats from tamils to anuradhapura and polonnaruwa,an immediate shifting to kurunegala was essential for further security reason.the first king of kurunagala was 2nd buwanakabahu,who ruled for seven years at yapahuwa, giving maximum protecction to the tooth relic and the bowl relic he had stolen from king 2nd parakramabahu.it is said that 2nd buwanakabahu ruled for a further period of two years from kurunagala.the second heir to the kurunegala dynasty of kings wad king 4th buwanekabahu who buit a temple for the tooth relic in kurunegala and provided maximum protection and ensured full veneration rites.
Over the ring of rocks surrounding kurunegala namely ibbagala (tortoise rock),kuruminiya gala(beetle rock),ada gala(eal rock),elu gala(goat rock) and so on there existsan interesting legend where a certain witch who had been in charge of the historic kurunegala lake turned the animals to rocks when they had come to the lake to drink water during a severe drought, without her permission.
