Kerinci Seblat National Park
The Kerinchi - Seblat National Park is located on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. With a total extension of about 1.4 million ha it overlaps four provinces of the island and is the largest national park in Sumatra. The park is located at an altitude of 200 m to 3805 m above sea level. The highest elevation is 3805 m with just the Gunung Kerinchi, an active stratovolcano until today, dar.
Geographical Location
The four provinces covered by the National Park, its decreasing size order, are:
- Jambi
- Sumatera Barat ( West Sumatra )
- Bengkulu
- Sumatera Selatan ( South Sumatra )
The park covers a large part of Barisangebirges ( Bukit Barisan mountain range ), in which also the Kerinchi is. The Seven Mountain Lake Gunung Tujuh is located within the park 's highest crater lake in Southeast Asia. Hot springs, caves and waterfalls characterize the landscape of the park. Other spectacular ecosystems are some of the freshwater marsh Rawa Bento, or peat swamp Ladeh Panjang.
Today, the park is one of the tropical rainforests of Sumatra, which were taken in 2004 as a natural monument on the UNESCO World Heritage List, in addition to the simultaneously recorded Natural Park of Gunung Leuser and the Barisan Selatan.
Biodiversity
The park has a high diversity of plants. More than 4000 different plants could be identified in the terrain. Among the Titan Arum, a plant that has the largest unbranched inflorescence of the entire plant kingdom, and the Riesenrafflesie that has the superlative to have the largest and heaviest flowers of the plant kingdom.
The fauna found high level of protection in the park. So there live the rare Sumatran tiger, the largely extinct Sumatran rhino, which since 2008 standing on the red list of endangered species the Sunda Clouded Leopard, the Malayan tapir, the Malayan Sun and sumatrische barking. More than 300 bird species live in the park, including several endemic.
Pictures
Fresh of cleared forest for farmland purposes
Volcano Tujuh