December 2004 tsunami
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.
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)
GS Number Area Total Families Population KP/67B Maruthamunai-1 300 2089 KP/67 Maruthamunai-2 395 3150 KP/67A Maruthamunai-3 2225 4160 KP/67C Maruthamunai-4 393 1911 KP/67D Maruthamunai-5 384 1953 KP/68 Maruthamunai-6 South 610 2553 - Pandirupu-MD 481 1928 KP/72 Periyaneelavanai-01 619 2959 KP/72A Periyaneelavanai-02 382 1965
Source: http://www.kalmunai.ds.gov.lk
Schools
Al Manar Central College(N.S) Al Minan Vidyalaya Al Madeena Vidyalaya Al-Hambra Shamsul Ilm Mahavidayalayam
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