Gin Ganga River

Gin Ganga River

Gin Ganga (Sinhala: ගිං ගඟ; Tamil: கிங்கங்கை) is considered one of the important rivers in southern Sri Lanka. The chronicle Mahavamsa mentions this river as Galu Nadi in its chapter that describes the civil war during the reign of King Parakramabahu I [(1153-1186 A.D. Nicholas, 1963]. A granite block of stone with a  15th-century Crocodile Charm and a Talisman  was discovered on the streambed of this river at Baddegama in Galle  (Rohanadeera, 2007). The river originates from the Gongala mountains in Deniyaya (Wickramaarachchi et al., 2012; Wijesiri, 2015). It drains part of the southern province and passes Udugama, Mapalagama, Agaliya, and Baddegama (Seneviratne, 2011). After travelling about 112.5 km, it eventually empties into the Indian Ocean at Gintota in Galle District (Seneviratne, 2011; Wickramaarachchi et al., 2012). It annually discharges about 1268 million cubic meters into the sea (Wickramaarachchi et al., 2012). The streams draining to Gin Ganga include Holuwagoda Ela, Keembi…