Central Karakoram National Park

The K2, the highest point of the National Park

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The Central Karakoram National Park is located in the Karakoram mountain range in the province of Gilgit- Baltistan in Pakistan. It extends across the districts within the province of Skardu, Gilgit and Ghanche on a total area of 10,000 km ². This makes it the largest national parks in the country. The park was established in 1993. The National Park is characterized by a high concentration of extremely high peaks. He has a total of sixty 7000 summit and four of the 14 eight-thousanders. The highest point of the park is the K2, which is also the second highest mountain in the world. In the north- west of the National Park to the Khunjerab National Park borders.

Vegetation and wildlife

Large parts of the parking area are characterized by alpine mats and rocks, they are glaciated or they are above the vegetation zone. Woody plants are by dry mountainous coniferous and mountain deciduous forests, subalpine and represents northern dry shrub lands.

For the large animal fauna include markhor, Asian ibex, Ladakh Uriale, musk deer, snow leopards, brown bears, wolves, red foxes and lynxes North. Noteworthy among the birds are booted eagle and king chickens.

Colonization

In the national park there are about 350 settlements, inhabited by a total of about 211,000 people.