Kerinci-Seblat National Park

Kerinci-Seblat National Park
Location:	Jambi , Sumatera Barat , Bengkulu , Sumatera Selatan , Indonesia
Surface:	13680 km²
Founding:	1999
Address:	www.warsi.or.id
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The National Park Kerinci Seblat- located on the Indonesian island of Sumatra . With a total area of almost 1.4 million hectares, it straddles four provinces of the island and is therefore the largest national park. The park is located at an altitude of 200 m to 3805 m above sea level. Highest point is 3805 m of Mount Kerinci , one or more active today Stratovolcano .

Geographical location

The national park extends over the following provinces. These are in descending order of size:

Jambi
Sumatra Barat (Western Sumatra )

Bengkulu

Sumatra Selatan (South Sumatra)

The park extends over a large part of the Barisan Mountains (Bukit Barisan Mountain Range). This is also where the Kerinci lies. The Seven Mountain Lake within the Gunung Tujuh is the highest crater lake in Southeast Asia. Hot springs, caves and waterfalls shape the landscape. Other spectacular ecosystems are the fresh water swamp Rawa Bento and the peat swamp Ladeh Panjang .

Today, the park is one of the tropical rainforests of Sumatra , in 2004 as a natural monument in the UNESCO the list world heritage were taken. Since 2011 it has also been on the Red List of World Heritage in Danger, together with the Gunung Leuser and Barisan Selatan National Parks .

biodiversity

The park has a high diversity of plants. Over 4000 different plants could be identified in the terrain. These include the titan arum , a plant that has the largest unbranched inflorescence of the entire plant kingdom, and the giant rafflesia , which has the superlative of having the largest and heaviest flowers in the plant kingdom.

The animal world is also highly protected in the park. To live there, the rare Sumatran tigers , which largely extinct Sumatran rhino , which since 2008 on the endangered Red List species standing Sunda clouded leopard , the Malayan tapir , the sun bear and sumatrische barking . More than 300 species of birds live in the park, including several endemic ones .