A Coastal wetland of Natural origin located in the Wet Zone of the Southern province. The town of Bentota actually, sits on an estuary, where the river and the sea meet. This makes the area quite famous for water sports like windsurfing, scuba diving & snorkeling. Dedduwa Lake is a brackish lagoon fed by an estuary of the Bentota River. The area around Lunuganga is the wettest and most fertile region of the island, a vast hothouse of exotic trees and plants. But, like so much of Sri Lanka's landscape, Lunuganga is a man-made creation, which in its previous incarnations has been a Dutch cinnamon garden and a British rubber estate.

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