Batticaloa

Batticaloa is a noteworthy city in the Sri Lanka, and its previous capital. It is the authoritative capital of the Batticaloa District. The city is the seat of the Eastern University of Sri Lanka and is a noteworthy business city. It is on the east drift, 69 miles south of Trincomalee, and is arranged on an island. Pasikudah is well known traveler goals arranged 35 km northwest with shorelines and level year-round warm-water shallow-lagoons.Batticaloa is a Portuguese induction. The first name of the district being the Tamil "Matakkalappu". Mukkuwa named this place as KaLappu-Mattam or limit of tidal pond later it moved toward becoming Matta-Kallappu or Flat Lagoon.

Batticaloa has verifiably been a focal point of Portuguese Burgher culture. In the 1980s, notwithstanding Burger resettlement to Australia, the Union still numbered somewhere in the range of 2,000 speakers of Sri Lankan Portuguese, making them the biggest group as yet talking the dialect.Batticaloa is in the eastern shore of Sri Lanka on a level beach front plain boarded by the Indian Ocean in the east involves a focal piece of the eastern Sri Lanka. Its normal height is around 5 meters.Batticaloa locale has three tidal ponds, for example, Batticaloa Lagoon, Valaichchenai Lagoon, and Vakari Lagoon.