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Title: Wewa: Reservoir
Creator: Bopearachchi, Osmund
Date Created and/or Issued: 2015
Publication Information: Claremont Colleges Library
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: Ancient Cultural Sites and Royal Residences
Rights Information: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Description: Kala Wewa (ancient artificial lake and reservoir). It has a circumference of 40 miles and a total area of 7 square miles at full capacity.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: acs00007.jpg
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll15/id/125
Subject: Reservoirs
Irrigation
Time Period: Circa 8th century CE
Place: Avukana, Anurādhapura District, North Central Province
Avukana
Sri Lanka
Relation: Ancient Buddhist Sites and Royal Residences in Sri Lanka - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll15

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