| Maruthamunai | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Pushpin Map: | Sri Lanka |
| Pushpin Label Position: | above |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Sri Lanka |
| Coordinates: | 7.4167°N 81.8167°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Sri Lanka |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Type3: | Divisional Secretariat |
| Subdivision Name1: | Eastern Province, Sri Lanka |
| Subdivision Name2: | Ampara District |
| Subdivision Name3: | Kalmunai |
| Government Type: | Kalmunai Municipal Council |
| Population Total: | 13948 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal Code |
| Postal Code: | 32314 |
| Timezone: | Sri Lanka Standard Time |
| Utc Offset: | +5:30 |
| Timezone Dst: | Summer time |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +6 |
Maruthamunai was one of the villages most severely affected in Sri Lanka by the Indian Ocean tsunami on 26 December 2004. The disaster killed 922 residents of the village, displaced 11,086, 1,391 houses were completely destroyed and 1,359 were partially damaged. Previous to the disaster the population of the village was officially 17,393. In addition to over 1,300 homes, many public buildings were destroyed by the tsunami.[1]
Maruthamunai is bounded on the North by Periyaneelavanai village, on the West by paddy fields together with the river bed of the Batticaloa Lagoon, on the South by another conventional village - Pandiruppu, and on the East by the Bay of Bengal of the Indian Ocean. Maruthamunai had an extent area of 2.11 square kilometers and a Muslim population of about twenty thousand in 2004, before the Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004.
| GS Number | Area | Total Families | Population | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KP/67B | Maruthamunai-1 | 300 | 2089 | |
| KP/67 | Maruthamunai-2 | 395 | 3150 | |
| KP/67A | Maruthamunai-3 | 2225 | 4160 | |
| KP/67C | Maruthamunai-4 | 393 | 1911 | |
| KP/67D | Maruthamunai-5 | 384 | 1953 | |
| KP/68 | Maruthamunai-6 South | 610 | 2553 | |
| - | Pandirupu-MD | 481 | 1928 | |
| KP/72 | Periyaneelavanai-01 | 619 | 2959 | |
| KP/72A | Periyaneelavanai-02 | 382 | 1965 |
Source: http://www.kalmunai.ds.gov.lk