Dambagalla is a village and former Union Council in

Monaragala District Monaragala (, ) is a district in Uva Province of Sri Lanka. It is the second largest of the 25 districts in Sri Lanka, with an area of . Main Towns * Monaragala * Bibile * Buttala * Wellawaya * Kataragama * Siyambalanduva * medagama * T ...

Uva Province The Uva Province (, , ) is one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka. The province has an area of 8,500 km2 and a population of 1,266,463, making it the 2nd least populated province. The provincial capital is Badulla. Uva is bordered by the East ...

, southeastern-central Sri Lanka. It lies by road to the north of Monaragala, off the Colombo-Batticaloa highway (A4).Google Maps
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History

A tea plantation was established at Dambagalla in 1912. It was operated by English and Scottish Co-operative Wholesales Societies from 1912 to 1917. In September 2014 the residence of

Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP; , PLF) is a Marxist–Leninist political party in Sri Lanka. The party was formerly a revolutionary movement and was involved in two armed uprisings against the government of Sri Lanka: once in 1971 JVP ins ...

(JVP) candidate for Uva, Anura Kumara Wickremesing, was attacked by an unidentified group in the Obbeygoda area of Dambagalla. In April 2020, a 25-year-old wildlife officer was fatally shot by poachers in Gal Oya National Park in Dambagalla.

Landmarks

There is a branch of the

Bank of Ceylon Bank of Ceylon (BOC; Sinhala: ලංකා බැංකුව ''Lanka Bænkuwa'', Tamil: இலங்கை வங்கி ''Ilangai Vangi'') is a state-owned, major commercial bank in Sri Lanka. Its head office is located in an iconic cyl ...

in Makulla Town, Dambagalla. The Sri Wijayawardhanaaramaya, Bingoda Purana Viharaya and Sri Vivekarmaya Buddhist temples are in the vicinity as well as Madulla Public Library. Dambagalla tank stores water for irrigation in the area.

References

{{Reflist Populated places in Uva Province Populated places in Monaragala District