Point Pedro, also known as Paruthithurai is a town, located in Jaffna District, Sri Lanka, at the northernmost point of the island.
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Cotton is produced around Point Pedro in the fertile calcic red latosol soils. The eastern coast of Point Pedro forms a 3 mile wide, 20 mile long beach with sand dunes up to 100 feet high, extending to Thalayady. The porous soil has a water table deep underground with an estimated one billion litres of fresh water. The Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 raised the salt content of the ground water. The tsunami destroyed parts of the town and submerged some parts with seawater up to 4 feet deep.
The town came briefly under the control of the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) during the early 1990s, until the Sri Lankan Army recaptured it in 1995.
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Towns around Point Pedro
- Valvedditturai7.3 km W
- Jaffna30 km SW
- Vedaraniyam75 km NW
- Mullaittivu88 km SE
- Mannar100 km SW
- Thiruthuraipoondi103 km NW
- Muthupet103 km NW
- Adirampattinam110 km NW
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