Outamba-Kilimi-Nationalpark

IUCN Category II - National Park

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The Outamba - Kilimi National Park lies in the northwest of Sierra Leone near the border to Guinea. As one of the few game reserve in the country, he is one of the tourist highlights of a trip to Sierra Leone. Founded in 1986, the landscape is characterized by humid savanna and primary forest regions with some hills and numerous rivers. The national park is home to the largest chimpanzee populations in West Africa.

  • 2.1 Mammals
  • 2.2 birds

The Park

Introduction

The park is divided into two areas Outamba ( 741 km ²) and Kilimi ( 368 km ²) is divided, which lie a few kilometers apart. The normal travelers will stay mainly in Outamba area.

Check-in

The park can be reached by all-terrain vehicle ( absolutely necessary ) via Makeni and Kamakwie. A bottleneck is the short ferry crossing over the Little River Scarcies. On the other side there is a sign, the (right) leads a national park. Here is the camp and the Visitors Center.

Accommodation and facilities

In the National Park you can stay in some fixed tents with communal sanitary facilities. Need to bring own food. From here you can participate through tropical rain forest and savannah in organized canoe trips and hikes.

Outside the park there are about 15 kilometers away, in Kamakwie, including Pascale 's Guest House offers rooms with private bathrooms and the Sella Guesthouse.

In the National Park there are marked paths and it can take guided canoe and hiking trips are undertaken. There is no electricity or water.

Fauna and Flora

During the 10 -year civil war, many animals were killed in the National Park by the rebels as food. This includes many protected by international treaties species. In the last five years, the stock of most animal species, however, has developed very positively.

Mammals

In the National Park there are, among others, nine species of monkeys, including the chimpanzee, the red, black and white colobus and the Rußmangabe are classified as threatened.

Outamba - Kilimi is one of the last refuges of large animal species in West Africa. Here ( and in a few other regions in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ivory Coast ) live the rare pygmy hippopotami as well as conventional hippos. In addition, you can see with a little luck the West African elephants, Cape buffalo, leopards, bongos, giraffes, crocodiles and various duiker species.

The National Park is a paradise for ornithologists. 1994 were registered in Outamba - Kilimi more than 220 species of birds.

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