Loango National Park

Loango National Park
Elephants in Loango National Park
Coordinates: 2 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  S , 9 ° 34 ′ 0 ″  E
Location:	Ogooué-Maritime , Gabon
Surface:	1550 km²
Founding:	2002

The Loango National Park (French: Parc National de Loango ) is located on the Atlantic coast in southwest Gabon , around 300 km from the capital Libreville . The approximately 1550 km² park was founded in 2002 by the merger of the Iguela and Loango reserves. It is one of thirteen national parks in Gabon that are intended to restructure the economy: away from the slowly dwindling oil revenues towards ecotourism . Together they take up 10% of the total area of ​​Gabon.

The park is known for seeing the large animals of Africa, including elephants, buffalo and hippos, on the white sandy beaches. Up to 10,000 forest elephants live in what is probably the most important national park in Gabon . Other common animals are gorillas , red buffalo , antelopes , pin-eared pigs , sea ​​turtles , Atlantic tarpon , freshwater mackerel and hippos .

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1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated November 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ http://www.zentralafrika.de/Nationalparks/Loango-NP/

Web links

• Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux: Parc National de Loango (French)
• Homepage of the national park
• Info on Touring Africa
• Image: Forest elephants in the park
• Map of all national parks in Gabon