Madunagala Hot Springs
The Madunagala Thermal Springs or Madunagala Hot Water Wells (Sinhala: මදුනාගල උණුදිය ලිං) site is one of the major geothermal springs areas in Sri Lanka and is located in Sooriyawewa, Hambantota District. The springs are also known as Mahapelessa or Sooriyawewa springs (Nandanee et al., 2016).
Leonard Woolf (1880-1969), the Assistant Government Agent for Hambantota and the author of "The village in the Jungle" is one of the earliest visitors to the site in recent times (Abeyawardana, 2004). However, the site was not known among the people until, the introduction of the Udawalawe Reservoir irrigation project (Abeyawardana, 2004). Presently, the site has been developed as a major tourist attraction in the Southern Province. Hot water springs
Geothermal springs are the natural springs that contain hot water (Piyadasa & Ariyasena, 2011). Commonly, thermal springs in the world are associated with volcanic terrain but the hot springs located in Sri Lanka are not related to v…
