Negombo ( Country of the snakes , Cingalais) is a city of the west coast of the Sri Lanka, to approximately 40 km in the north of the capital Colombo.

Negombo has approximately 122.000 inhabitants (2003) and is one of the most important fishing ports at the Western coast.

Economy

Negombo transmitted the catamarans to us

Two words of the language tamoule, kattu (bond) and maram (tree), indicate since centuries the typical boats of Ceylon (Sri Lanka). The thorough-bred of the modern regattas have as ancestors of the heaps of trunks assembled with ropes. One can still see some in water of Negombo. It is even thanks to these primitive boats that the old Portuguese colony became the first center of fishing of Sri Lanka.