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Maruthamunai

Coordinates: 7°25′00″N 81°49′00″E / 7.41667°N 81.81667°E / 7.41667; 81.81667
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Maruthamunai
Village
Maruthamunai is located in Sri Lanka
Maruthamunai
Maruthamunai
Location in Sri Lanka
Coordinates: 7°25′00″N 81°49′00″E / 7.41667°N 81.81667°E / 7.41667; 81.81667
CountrySri Lanka
ProvinceEastern Province, Sri Lanka
DistrictAmpara District
Divisional SecretariatKalmunai
Government
 • TypeKalmunai Municipal Council
Population
 • Total13,948
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (Sri Lanka Standard Time)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+6 (Summer time)
Postal Code
32314

December 2004 tsunami

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This picture shows 2004 tsunami hit in Maruthamunai

Maruthamunai was one of the villages most severely affected in Sri Lanka by the Indian Ocean tsunami on 26 December 2004. The disaster killed 922 residents of the village, displaced 11,086, 1,391 houses were completely destroyed and 1,359 were partially damaged. Previous to the disaster the population of the village was officially 17,393. In addition to over 1,300 homes, many public buildings were destroyed by the tsunami.[1]

Maruthamunai is bounded on the North by Periyaneelavanai village, on the West by paddy fields together with the river bed of the Batticaloa Lagoon, on the South by another conventional village - Pandiruppu, and on the East by the Bay of Bengal of the Indian Ocean. Maruthamunai had an extent area of 2.11 square kilometers and a Muslim population of about twenty thousand in 2004, before the Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004.

GS divisions and population (2022)

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GS Number Area Total Families Population
KP/67B Maruthamunai-1 300 2089
KP/67 Maruthamunai-2 395 3150
KP/67A Maruthamunai-3 2225 4160
KP/67C Maruthamunai-4 393 1911
KP/67D Maruthamunai-5 384 1953
KP/68 Maruthamunai-6 South 610 2553
- Pandirupu-MD 481 1928
KP/72 Periyaneelavanai-01 619 2959
KP/72A Periyaneelavanai-02 382 1965

Source: http://www.kalmunai.ds.gov.lk

Schools

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  • Shams Central College(N.S)
  • Al Manar Central College(N.S)
  • Al Minan Vidyalaya
  • Al Madeena Vidyalaya
  • Al-Hambra

References

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  1. ^ "Maruthamunai: a tsunami-devastated village in Sri Lanka, by A. Shanthakumar and W.A. Sunil, 29 December 2005". Wsws.org. Retrieved 29 November 2011.