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Kumbukkan Oya

The 883rd longest river in the world

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The Kumbukkan Oya is the twelfth-longest river of Sri Lanka. The 116 km (72 mi) long river runs across two provinces and two districts. Its catchment area receives approximately 2,115 million cubic metres of rain per year, and approximately 12 percent of the water reaches the sea. It has a catchment area of 1,218 square kilometres.

Flows through: Sri Lanka.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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