Lake Naujan National Park

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Lake Naujan National Park
Lake Naujan National Park (Philippines)
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Coordinates: 13 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  N , 121 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  E
Location: Philippines
Specialty: Mindoro
Next city: Naujan
Surface: 130.11 km²
Founding: January 25, 1968
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The Lake Naujan National Park is located near the town of Naujan in the province of Oriental Mindoro in the Philippines . It covers an area of ​​13,011 hectares, which covers most of the Naujan Lake. It is regarded as the initial component of the National Integrated Protected Areas System of the Philippines. The Lake Naujan National Park is one of six nature reserves of the Philippines as Ramsar sites have been designated.

The lake is located in the northeast of the island of Mindoro and has an extension of 14 by 7 km. It is about eight kilometers from the coastline, separated by a range of hills.

Naujan Lake is a freshwater lake of volcanic origin, on its south side there are thermal springs , its maximum depth is about 45 meters. The surrounding areas cover forests, heaths and grasslands, interspersed with fruit and coconut palm plantations . A center for research into afforestation is located on the south side of the lake.

fauna and Flora

The livelihoods of the population are agriculture and fishing. In the lake there are populations of the cichlid genus Oreochromis , gobies , carp fish , freshwater shrimp and sea snails. In the area of the NP are populations of Philippine Duck , the Plate Taube , the Mindoro pigeon (Ducula mindorensis) , the spotted Fruchttaube ( Ducula Carola ), the Rotsteißkakadus (Cacatua haematuropygia) , the Mindorokuckucks (Centropus steerii) , the Mindoro horn bird (Penelopides mindorensis ) , the Mindorodrossel (Zoothera cinerea) and the Mindoromistelfresser (Dicaeum retrocinctum) have been observed.

See also

source

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The National Park on the PAWB website  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.pawb.gov.ph  
  2. ↑ Lake Naujan National Park on Ramsar.Org ( Memento from August 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

  • Tilapia

  • Philippine Duck

  • Fruit dove

  • Mistletoe