Koggala is a small coastal town, situated at the edge of alagoon on the south coast of Sri Lanka, located in Galle District, Southern Province, Sri Lanka, governed by an Urban Council.
The writer Lama Hewage Don Martin Wickramasinghe, popularly known as Martin Wickramasinghe, was born on the 29th of May 1890 in the village of Malagama (in the area of Koggala) near Galle.. The area lay between a reef on the coastal end and a swampy lagoon where the tributaries of Koggala River drained into. The lagoon had many mangrove forests along the shores, and was studded with delightful islands to explore.
