It is situated in 3km west from Talawakele town on Hatton-Talawakele Highway in Nuwara Eliya District. The Falls derived its name from a near by tea estate. St.Clair's Fall is 80m high and hence 20th highest waterfall in Sri Lanka. St.Clair's Falls comprises two falls called "Maha Ella" (Sinhalese "The Greater Fall") and "Kuda Ella" (Sinhalese "The Lesser Fall") which is 50m high created by a tributary of Kotmale Oya
St.clair is a very beautiful place. This waterfall has large amount of water. There fore it increases demand and beauty of this waterfall. St.clair is a western name. Before 1948 AD Sri Lanka was govern by British government. They used to grow tea in upcountry lands and export it to UK. In that time they hippies about this waterfall and place the name like this.
Many places of This region has nice and big tea estates. Thalawakele, Dayagama, Hatton, Great western, Hillwood, Blackwood, Horton plains, and various tea factories. You can visit these tea factories as well. Tamil workers are work in tea estates. This workers have political party called Sri Lanka workers congress and it's controlled by Mr. Thondaman.
Thalawakele has nice railway station and special points are also at there. Thalawakele rail way is narrow road and in little distance train travels up to several kilometers.
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