Bantimurung-Bulusaraung National Park

Bantimurung-Bulusaraung National Park
Coordinates: 4 ° 54 ′ 0 ″  S , 119 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  E
Location:	Sulawesi Selatan , Indonesia
Surface:	437 km²
Founding:	2004
Address:	Jln. Poros Maros-Bone Km.12, Bantimurung, Maros, Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia

The Bantimurung-Bulusaraung National Park is a 437 km² national park in the Maros administrative district in the Sulawesi Selatan Province , Indonesia . The park is about 50 km north of Makassar . The area includes the limestone mountains of Maros Pangkep, the second largest karst region in the world after southeast China . The karst region is 43,750 hectares and includes 286 caves, including 16 prehistoric caves in Maros Governorate and 17 prehistoric caves in Pangkep, Bone Governorate .

The main attraction and popular destination for the population is the waterfall. At the waterfall there are two caves, the dream cave on the left side of the waterfall (one kilometer long) and the stone cave on the right side.

History of the park

The first exploration of the area of ​​Bantimurung was carried out by Alfred Wallace in July-October 1857. Later he published his research results in the book "The Malay Archipelago", whereupon many researchers came to Maros. 1970–1980 there were five selected protected areas in the Maros-Pangkep Karst area, consisting of two nature parks (Bantimurung and Gua Pattunuang) and three nature reserves (Bantimurung, Karaenta and Bulusaurung). In 1993 the XI. International Union for Speleology -Congress the Maros-Pangkep Karst as World Heritage. Five years later, the environmental seminar at Hasanuddin University in Makassar (PSL-UNHAS) also recommended the protection of the Maros-Pangkep Karst. In 2004 the area was declared a national park. In the caves in the Maros-Pangkep Karst , around 40,000 years old cave paintings were discovered.

fauna

The National Park houses, among other Mohrenmakaken ( Macaca Maura ), hornbills ( Helmhornvogel bird and Sulawesi-Hornvogel ) strigocuscus ( Strigocuscus celebensis ), Sulawesi-Roller ( Macrogalidia musschenbroekii ), bats and binding pigs ( Sus scrofa vittatus ). In March 2008, the national park staff documented the existence of the Makassar tarsier ( Tarsius fuscus ). The freshwater crab Cancrocaeca xenomorpha is only found in the karst caves of Maros.

There are numerous butterflies in the park such as Troides helena , Troides hypolitus , Troides haliphron , Papilio peranthus adamantius and Cethosia myrina . During his research trip in 1857, Alfred Wallace identified 256 species of butterflies. Butterflies from Bantimurung have been exported and sold as souvenirs since the 1970s. Only since 2010 has the park administration seen the preservation of butterflies as a goal instead of exploitation.

gallery

Commons : Bantimurung-Bulusaraung National Park  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

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  Gate to the Bantimurung waterfall

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  Butterflies for sale in the national park

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  green river in national park

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  Stalactites and stalagmites inside a cave in Bantimurung

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  Lithograph of the Bantimurung waterfall around 1883–1889 based on Josias Cornelis Rappard

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  Bantimurung waterfall today

Web links

Official website of the national park

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karst Maros - Pangkep Jejak Prasejarah yang Terkubur di Bukit Kapur . September 10, 2012. Archived from the original on March 5, 2014. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 23, 2014. 
2. ^ Official website of the national park , accessed on September 20, 2012.
3. ↑ National park website: Spesies Prioritas Utama TN. Bantimurung Bulusaraung
4. ↑ Endemic fauna in the Karst of Maros in kompas.com