Quill / Boven National Park

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Quill / Boven National Park
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Quill / Boven National Park (Lesser Antilles)
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Coordinates: 17 ° 28 ′ 41 ″  N , 62 ° 57 ′ 36 ″  W.
Location: Sint Eustatius , Caribbean Netherlands
Next city: Oranjestad
Surface: 5.4 km²
Founding: 1998
Address: St Eustatius National Parks Foundation (STENAPA)

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The Quill / Boven National Park is a national park on the island of St. Eustatius , one of the Netherlands belonging to particular communities in the Caribbean .

Established in 1998 as the first national park in the Netherlands Antilles , the park consists of two parts. The southern part (Quill National Park) extends around the volcano The Quill and the limestone formation Whitewall , the northern part (Boven National Park or sub-sector Boven) includes through volcanism and erosion resulting hill Boven , Venus , Gilboa Hill , Signal Hill and Bergje .

administration

The island government has entrusted the management to the NGO St Eustatius National Parks Foundation (STENAPA) . This also manages the Sint Eustatius National Marine Park and the Miriam C. Schmidt Botanical Garden .

Southern part

The southern part (Quill National Park) has an area of ​​3.4 km². The dormant volcano The Quill has a height of about 600 meters. The slopes of the volcano are heavily forested. In larger quantities you can find the casha = sweet acacia , the white headed mimosa , the cinnamon apple , the kapok tree and the white gum tree ( Bursera simaruba ), various types of the cactus and caper family , some lianas and epiphytes .

In the crater and on the edge of the crater you can find the kapok tree, the yellow mombin plum , the white gum tree, mammi apple , the ant tree Cecropia schreberiana , the cocoa tree , species from the genus begonia and the bromeliad family .

  • Sweet acacia

  • Cinnamon apple

  • Kapok tree

  • White gum tree

  • Mammi apple

The animal world is diverse. Here one finds habitat for many bird species, including the Antilles dove , the sugar bird , the coast dove , the common ground dove , the American Yellow Warbler , the Kestrel and on the endangered Red List species standing bridled quail-dove . The Green Island Guan, endemic to the Lesser Antilles , and the endangered snake Alsophis rufiventris, endemic to Saba and Sint Eustatius, can also be found here.

  • Antilles pigeon

  • Sugar bird

  • Coastal pigeon

  • Sparrow dust

  • Golden Warbler

  • Mustache earth dove

  • Green Island Guan

Northern part

The northern part (Boven National Park) has an area of ​​2 km². The hills formed by volcanism and erosion have a height of about 175 meters (Gilboa Hill) to about 290 meters (Boven) . The vegetation in the northern part had suffered greatly from agriculture and animal husbandry until the establishment of the national park . The vegetation is now recovering due to severe restrictions. Here include the teiidae Ameiva erythrocephala and the Green Iguana Island and the morning glory Ipomoea sphenophylla and 15 orchid species to be found.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b St Eustatius National Park. In: statiapark.org. Retrieved December 27, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b St Eustatius National Park. In: statiapark.org. Retrieved December 27, 2016 .