Mount Gede Pangrango National Park

Mount Gede Pangrango National Park
Taman Nasional Gunung Gede Pangrango
View of Gunung Gede from the nearby tea plantation
Map showing the location of Mount Gede Pangrango National Park
Map showing the location of Mount Gede Pangrango National Park
Mount Gede Pangrango NP
Location in Java
Map showing the location of Mount Gede Pangrango National Park
Map showing the location of Mount Gede Pangrango National Park
Mount Gede Pangrango NP
Mount Gede Pangrango NP (Indonesia)
LocationWest Java, Indonesia
Nearest cityBogor
Coordinates6°46′0″S 106°56′0″E / 6.76667°S 106.93333°E / -6.76667; 106.93333
Area151.96 km² (15,196 ha)
Established1980
Governing bodyMinistry of Environment and Forestry
Websitewww.gedepangrango.org

Mount Gede Pangrango National Park is a national park in West Java, Indonesia. The park is centred on two volcanoes—Mount Gede and Mount Pangrango—and is 150 km² in area.[1]

It evolved from already existing conservation areas, such as Cibodas Botanical Gardens, Cimungkat Nature Reserve, Situgunung Recreational Park, and Mount Gede Pangrango Nature Reserve, and has been the site of important biological and conservation research over the last century.[1] In 1977 UNESCO declared it part of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves.[2]

  1. ^ a b Whitten, Tony and Jane (1992). Wild Indonesia: The Wildlife and Scenery of the Indonesian Archipelago. United Kingdom: New Holland. pp. 127–28. ISBN 1-85368-128-8.
  2. ^ Ministry of Forestry: Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park Archived 2010-03-15 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 23 July 2010

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