Kalutara (Singhalese කළුතර, there களுத்துறை) is a city, the administrative center of the district of the same name in the Western Province of Sri Lanka.
Kalutara is located in the southwestern part of the country on the shores of the Laccadive Sea of ​​the Indian Ocean, at the mouth of the Kalu River; population – 39,700 people. Kalutara stretches along the coast from north to south for about 5.5 km, inland goes no more than one kilometer. The bridge, about half a kilometer long, connects the northern part of Kalutara with the southern part of the city of Keselwatta – this is one of the largest communication routes between the western and southern parts of the country. There are two railway stations, and the A2 highway passes through the city. There is a football club, a cricket club, a stadium with a capacity of 15,000 spectators, a super maximum security prison.

Kalutara was founded no later than the 11th century. In the 17th century, Portugal, Great Britain and the Netherlands fought for control of the region. Historically, coconuts have been grown in the city, both for domestic consumption and for export. Today the city is governed by the city council.

There are 3 national schools in Kalutara (Kalutara Vidyalaya National School, Tissa Central and Kalutara Balika National School, operating since 1942), 11 provincial, 2 semi-governmental and 3 international, Holy Cross College, and a branch of the Open University of Sri Lanka.

Sights
Fort Kalutara was built by the Portuguese in 1622. The last ruins of the fort disappeared from the face of the earth after the construction of the Kalutara Chaitya Buddhist temple on this site in the 1960s.
Kalutara Bodhiya – Bodhi tree (sacred ficus)
Buddhist temple Asokaramaya Buddhist Temple – built by a wandering monk in the mid-1870s.
The oldest remains of anatomically modern humans (about 34,000 years ago) in South Asia have been found in the Fa Hien Cave.