Peduru Tuduva

Point Pedro translit. Peduru Tuduva is a town, situated in Jaffna District, Sri Lanka, at the northernmost purpose of the island. Cotton is created around Point Pedro in the prolific calcic red latosol soils. The eastern shoreline of Point Pedro shapes a 3 mile wide, 20 mile long shoreline with sand rises up to 100 feet high, stretching out to Thalayady. The permeable soil has a water table profound underground with an expected one billion liters of crisp water. The Boxing Day wave of 2004 raised the salt substance of the ground water.

The tidal wave devastated parts of the town and submerged a few sections with seawater up to 4 feet down. The town came quickly under the control of the Tamil Tigers LTTE amid the mid 1990s, until the Sri Lankan Army recovered it in 1995. The place name of Point Pedro is a debasement of the Portuguese "Ponta das Pedras" signifying "the rough cape". The name of the town in Tamil is Paruthithurai, which actually signify "Cotton Harbor".

In the event that the much-deferred and as often as possible re-arranged Sethusamudram Shipping Canal Project is finished, developing the Palk Straits among India and Sri Lanka to enable bigger boats to pass, as opposed to voyaging 650 km 350 nmi around Sri Lanka, at that Point Pedro and different ports in the Jaffna landmass may see a critical increment in oceanic exchange, particularly with India.