Divisional Secretariat - Kanthale

Kanthale

Kanthale divisional secretariat is an beautiful place which just over 45 km from trincomalee district kanthale’s greatest attraction are mahaweli river, kanthale tank & the jungle that surround the area. 
Kanthale has many explanations & the most popular translate was ‘ganthalawa’ kanthale tank is almost beautiful & famous place. It was built in 6th century by King 2nd Agbo This is the life of farmers who lives in kanthale irrigation aria as most of the people are doing paddy cultivation for their main income generation activity. In the mean  time the suger factory in kantale was a famous place in the world. Large number of people was enrolled with this factory & it also earned a name as the largest sugar factory in south asia. 
kanthale is home for rich mixer of people they are Sinhalese, the muslims, the tamils a number of other small groups of people they have a good understand each others. kanthale is an ancient place as there many historical places such as ruins at kanthale welunna temple, wan ela temple,sooriapura & peramaduwa. People from everyware were interested to visit these places. Kanthale is situated with full of natural resource places wich are the railway station, huge bus stand, depot, ect. All these factors make kanthale as high quality administration place.

Population

Nationility no. of persons

Sinhalese                                40467

Tamil                                       1748

Muslims                                    8746

History of Kanthale Divisional Secretariat
Before 1992, kanthale divisional secretariat named as the AGA,’s office and it handled by the assistant government agent. From the june, 1992 this office converted to a Divisioanal secretariat with more facilities there are twenty three grama niladari divisions in to this division.

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