Hakgala Botanical Garden is one of the five botanical gardens in Sri Lanka. The other four are Peradeniya Botanical Garden, Henarathgoda Botanical Garden, Mirijjawila Botanical Garden and Seetawaka Botanical Garden.
The garden was established in 1861, under George Henry Kendrick Thwaites as an experimental cultivation of Cinchona, a commercial crop thriving at the time. Once after the Tea replaced the Cinchona, it was turned into an experimental Tea cultivation. In 1884 it transformed into a garden.
Type Botanical garden
Location Hakgala, Nuwara Eliya
Coordinates 6°55′00″N 80°46′00″E
Area badulla
Created 1861
Operated by Department of Agriculture, Sri Lanka
Visitors 500 000
Status Open all year
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