Karapitiya

Karapitiya has the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital, a notable tertiary care hospital in the country, which serves as the main clinical training institute Faculty of Medicine of University of Ruhuna.{{Cite web |url=http://www.aarogya.tk/2010/06/teaching-hospital-karapitiya.html |title=Teaching Hospital, Karapitiya |access-date=2015-06-07 |archive-date=2014-10-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141003041100/http://www.aarogya.tk/2010/06/teaching-hospital-karapitiya.html |url-status=dead }}

There are a number of roads in Karapitiya, including the Hirimbura Cross Road, Anagarika Dharmapala Mawatha (Browns Road), Peter Kiringoda Mawatha, Maitipe First, Second and Third lanes, Hirimbura Road, H. K. Edmand Road (Morris Road) and Labuduwa Road.

Recently It has achieved a fast development with newly established branches of all of the famous banks in Sri Lanka;

• Bank of Ceylon
• People's Bank
• Sampath Bank
• Hatton National Bank
• Nations Trust Bank
• Commercial Bank of Ceylon
• Sanasa Development Bank
• Regional Development Bank
• Seylan Bank

Supermarkets;

• Cargills Food City
• Abeywickrama Food City [AFC]
• Keells Super

Lifestyle Showroom ;

• Electro Enterprises

The temple which is known as Purana Sunandaramaya is situated in front of the hospital. Sri Sudharmaramaya is a famous ancient temple located at Maitipe, Karapitiya. Sri Dheerananada Dhamma School located there serves the society.

There are several routes heading to/from Galle to/from Karapitiya and also via Karapitiya.

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• [http://www.galle.ds.gov.lk/ Galle Four Gravets Divisional Secretariat] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150617053757/http://www.galle.ds.gov.lk/ |date=2015-06-17 }}

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Category:Populated places in Sri Lanka

Category:Suburbs of Galle

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