Wakatobi National Park

Wakatobi National Park
Coordinates: 5 ° 41 ′ 0 ″  S , 124 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E
Location:	Sulawesi Tenggara , Indonesia
Next city:	Construction construction
Surface:	13900 km²
Founding:	2002

The Wakatobi National Park is an approximately 13,900 km² marine national park in the Sulawesi Tenggara Province , Indonesia . The islands form their own administrative district ( Kabupaten ) Wakatobi . The national park is located southeast of the island of Sulawesi between the Banda Sea in the northeast and the Floresee in the southwest and is the third largest marine national park in Indonesia.

The name of the Wakatobi is an acronym of the four main islands of the Tukangbesi Islands : Wa ngi-wangi, Ka ledupa, To mia and Bi nongko. The park has been on the tentative list for World Heritage in Indonesia since 2005 .

The national park consists of four larger islands: Wangi-Wangi , Kaledupa, Tomia and Binongko , as well as many smaller islands such as Tokobao, North Lintea, South Lintea, Kampenaune, Hoga and Tolandono. The highest point is 274 m on Wangi-Wangi, followed by Lagole Hill (271 m) on Tomia, Terpadu Hill (222 m) and Binongko Sampuagiwolo (203 m) on Kadelupa. The archipelago comprises 143 larger and smaller islands, only seven of which are inhabited with a total population of around 100,000 people, while the other islands are uninhabited. Of note are the Bajau villages, sea nomads who inhabit many of Indonesia's remote islands.

Flora and fauna

Coral reef in the national park

Wakatobi is home to 942 species of fish and 750 of a total of 850 reef inhabitants worldwide. The types of vegetation found in the national park are mangrove forest , coastal forest, lowland swamp forest, bank vegetation, lowland rainforest, mountain rainforest, and coral reefs . The Wakatobi Archipelago has 25 groups of coral reefs, including fringing reefs , barrier reefs , and atolls .

A 2003 study identified 396 species of coral belonging to 68 genera and 15 families. Including Acropora formosa , Acropora hyacinthus , Psammocora profundasafla , Pavona cactus , Leptoris Yabei , Fungia molucensis , Lobophyllia robusta , Merulina ampliata , Platygyra versifora , Euphyllia glabrescens , Tubastraea frondes , Stylophora pistillata , Sarcophyton throchelliophorum and Sinularia sp.

Among the species of seabird recorded are the white-bellied booby , kingfisher, and black plover . Turtle species in the park include the hawksbill sea turtle , loggerhead sea turtle and olive ridged turtle .

Diving tourism

The islands and reefs of the Wakatobi National Park are - because of the abundance of fish and their very good condition - a destination for diving tourism, and there are various diving areas around the islands . A diving resort was opened on Tolandono in 2013.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau described the islands as arguably the best diving area in the world in the 1980s . Arrival is possible by flight from Makassar or with a speedboat from Pelabuhan Mola or Makassar.

Web links

• Official website of the national park
• Wisata Taman Nasional Wakatobi

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lestari Hutan Indonesia ( Memento of the original from April 20, 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. , Retrieved July 23, 2010 
2. ↑ UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List: Wakatobi National Park , Retrieved July 23, 2010
3. ↑ WWF: Rapid Ecological Assessment Wakatobi National Park, 2003 ( Memento of the original from October 11, 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. , Retrieved July 23, 2010 
4. ↑ Forest Administration: Wakatobi National Park ( Memento of the original from December 29, 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. , Retrieved July 23, 2010 
5. ↑ A new Indonesia destination at Dive & Dream. Tauchjournal.de, December 6, 2013.
6. ↑ Leo Ochsenbauer, Klaus-M. Schremser, Marcus Hantschel: No Deco, Sex and Deep Intoxication - the double volume: 666 answers and diving questions. Kosmos, 2014, ISBN 978-3-440-14396-4 .
7. ↑ Holly Hughes, Sylvie Murphy, Alexis Lipsitz Flippin, Julie Duchaine: Frommer's 500 Extraordinary Islands. John Wiley & Sons, 2010, ISBN 978-0-470-50070-5 , p. 46.
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