Assertion: zone's area | /r/CapableOf | change to wet rice area
Facets:
value: in the 1970s
type: TEMPORAL
value: from a sparsely inhabited region
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: In the 1970s, the area drained by the Mahaweli Ganga changed from a sparsely inhabited region to a wet rice area similar to the southwest.