Adams Peake - Sri Lanka Royalty-Free Stock Photo

The mountain is situated in the southern scopes of the Central Highlands in the Ratnapura District and Nuwara Eliya region of the Sabaragamuwa Province and Central Province — lying around 40 km upper east of the city of Ratnapura and 32 km southwest of the city of Hatton. The encompassing district is to a great extent forested slopes, with no heap of similar size adjacent. The area along the mountain is a natural life save, lodging numerous species changing from elephants to panthers, and including numerous endemic species. nnAdam`s Peak is critical as a watershed. The areas toward the south and the east of Adam`s Peak yield valuable stones—emeralds, rubies and sapphires, for which the island has been renowned, and which earned for its old name of Ratnadvipa.