Maruthamunai
Village
Maruthamunai Location in Sri Lanka
Coordinates: 7°25′00″N 81°49′00″E / 7.41667°N 81.81667°E / 7.41667; 81.81667
Country	Sri Lanka
Province	Eastern Province, Sri Lanka
District	Ampara District
Divisional Secretariat	Kalmunai
Government
• Type	Kalmunai Municipal Council
Population
• Total	13,948
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (Sri Lanka Standard Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+6 (Summer time)
Postal Code	32314

Maruthamunai is a coastal village located along the eastern coastline, about 358 kilometres away from the capital city, Colombo. It has an estimated population of 13,948, predominantly Muslims. Maruthamunai Located in Kalmunai, Ampara District in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka.

December 2004 tsunami

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)

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

Schools

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

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