Tarangire-Nationalpark

The Tarangire River in Tarangire National Park

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The Tarangire National Park is a national park in northern Tanzania. It is 2850 km ² and is located southwest of Arusha near the Lake Manyara at 1000 to 1500 m above sea level. The annual precipitation is 600 mm.

Landscape and vegetation

Through the park of Tarangire River, which leads water constantly, so the annual dry season from July to October, many animals migrate from drier regions, which causes the highest density of large animals in Tanzania to the Ngorongoro Crater flows. The landscape consists of grasslands, especially on both sides of the river, open tree savannah, dense bush and woodlands and hills and rocky knolls with sparse vegetation. Baobab trees are disproportionately frequent.

Wildlife

Throughout the Tarangire National Park, the tsetse fly is found, which transmits sleeping sickness. The wild animals, however, are largely immune.

Among other things, living in the Tarangire National Park plains zebra, wildebeest, impala, waterbuck, Small kudu, African buffalo, giraffes, hippos, warthogs, lions, cheetahs, leopards, hyenas, African wild dogs, banded mongooses, baboons, Vervet cats and 300 bird species. The once abundant in large numbers black rhino is extinct. The number of elephants was 1977-1987 3000 copies, in Tarangire National Park, including the Simanjiro - area over 6000 elephants were counted in May 1988 over 5000, and in the dry season. Another census was 6110 individuals in 1987.

Visit and adjacent protected areas

For visiting the park you need a paid visitor's permit, which you get at the inputs. The roads in the park are unpaved and only easy to drive off-road vehicle.

To the south and southeast of Tarangire National Park, the Simanjiro - Mkungunero Conservation and Livestock Area is adjacent to a larger area as the park itself, it is the keeping of domestic animals, so the herds of Maasai allowed. In the northeast, the Lolkisasle Game Conservation Area adjoins the park, in the north- west, the Tarangire National Park buffer zone extends to the protection of migratory animals there and as part of a corridor to Lake Manyara National Park. Overall, the ecosystem covers 20,000 km ².