The lake of Colombo "Lake Beira"

Beira Lake is the lake of Colombo. It occupied approximately 165 hectares of land 100 years ago and has been reduced to mere 65 hectares today due to various reasons. During the colonialera of the Portuguese, and the English the lake was used to transport goods within the city. The lake has two distinct bodies of water, the smaller lake bordering Navam Mawatha and the larger lake bordering D.R. Wijewardena Mawatha (formerly McCullum Road) and it spills to the Indian Ocien at Galle Face and Colombo harbour.

This is Beira lake wive from perahara road
 

"Doowa" is small island and it's a children park many of Young guys and families come here to leisure

The smaller part of lake has an island (Doowa) and Seemalakaya which is a popular recreational area in the city. The lake gives a beautiful backdrop to Nawam Mawatha which is the de facto financial district of Colombo. Also in close proximity is Bishop's College,Gangarama Temple and Cinnamon Grand Hotel.

                                                                                                                                                                  

  This is Gangarama seemamalakaya it's belongs to Gangarama temple

According to historians and legends it was named after purposes engineer De Beira, who was assigned by Captain Lopo de Brito, to dam the stream to form a lake for security purposes." The stream referred to is a distributary of the Kelani river, known as the Kolon Ganga.

                                                          

 Many kind of birds living near the lake area

"Seemamalakaya" wive from Sir James Peiris road

Lake Beira is very important  to Colombo city as economically decency politically biodiversity so ,we can call to lake Beira the heart of Colombo.      

   










"Doowa" the children's park wive from Sir James Peiris road

the bridge to children's park

        peoples who participating a small  perahara