Sunday, July 3, 2011

Lorentz National Park

Lorentz National Park
Lorentz National Park
Lorentz National Park
Lorentz National Park Lorentz National Park

This area is also one among the three regions of the world that have a glacier in the tropics. Stretching from the snow-covered mountain peak (5030 meters above sea level), to stretch out to the coastal waters with mangrove forests and borders the Arafura Sea. Many as 34 types of vegetation such as swamp forests, riverside forests, sago forest, peat forests, coral sand beaches, rain forest land flat / slope, rain forest on the hill, heath forest, mountain forest, grasslands, and lichens.the Lorentz National Park, as many as 630 species of birds (± 70% of the bird in Papua) and 123 species of mammals. Bird species characteristic of this national park there are two types of cassowary, four megapoda, 31 types of pigeon / doves, 30 species of parrots, 13 species of birds of shrimp, 29 species of birds honey, and 20 endemic species such as long-tailed bird of paradise.

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