Uva Province (
Uva Palata,
Uva Maakaanam) is
Sri Lanka's second least populated
province, with 1,259,880 people, created in 1896. It consists of two
districts:
Badulla and
Moneragala. The provincial capital is
Badulla. Uva is bordered by
Eastern,
Southern and
Central provinces. Its major tourist attractions are Dunhinda falls, Diyaluma Falls, Rawana Falls, the
Yala National Park (lying partly in the Southern and Eastern Provinces) and
Gal Oya National Park (lying partly in the Eastern Province). The Gal Oya hills and the Central mountains are the main uplands, while the Mahaweli (
Sinhalese:
great-sandy) and Menik (Sinhalese:
gemstone) rivers and the huge Senanayake Samudraya and Maduru Oya Reservoirs are the major waterways.