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Suburb in Colombo District, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Oruwala

Oruwala, also spelled Oruwela, was a village but is now a suburb of Colombo in the Colombo District, Western Province, Sri Lanka.

The place

Oruwala, also spelled Oruwela, was a village but is now a suburb of Colombo in the Colombo District, Western Province, Sri Lanka.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Oruwala

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology

    Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology is a non-profit private university located in Malabe, Colombo, and Pallekele, in Sri Lanka. It specialises in various academic and professional fields, such as computer science, information technology, and business management.

    3.8 km · University in Sri Lanka · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Oruwala

Airports
Colombo Ratmalana (RML), 14 km · Bandaranaike International Colombo (CMB), 35 km
  • Jaffna → Oruwala
    309 km · quickest by air, 5h 29m · Rs17,000–26,220
  • Thiruvananthapuram → Oruwala
    380 km · quickest by air, 6h 4m · ₹10,730–16,480
  • Tiruchirappalli → Oruwala
    459 km · quickest by air, 6h 24m · ₹11,480–17,630
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Oruwala

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Oruwala. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    EllaLK

    7 ways of moving, 30 sources

    116 km
  2. 02
    GaviIN

    6 ways of moving, 16 sources

    422 km
  3. 03
    ThekkadyIN

    8 ways of moving, 14 sources

    425 km
  4. 04
    SuryanelliIN

    6 ways of moving, 18 sources

    467 km
  5. 05
    VattavadaIN

    6 ways of moving, 19 sources

    474 km

If you know how people move in Oruwala – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Oruwala

Oruwala is 17 km from Colombo, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.