Wakatobi National Park

Indonesia / Sulawesi Tenggara / Bau Bau /
 nature conservation park / area, national park
Wakatobi National Park is a marine national park, south of Sulawesi island of Indonesia. The name of Wakatobi is an acronym of the four main Tukangbesi Islands: Wangi-wangi, Kaledupa, Tomia, and Binongko. Since 2005 the park is listed as a tentative World Heritage Site.
The types of vegetation found in the national park are mangrove forest, coastal forest, lowland swamp forest, riverbank 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 survey conducted in 2003 identified 396 species of coral belonging to 68 genera and 15 families. These include Acropora formosa [right photo], Acropora hyacinthus, Psammocora profundasafla, Pavona cactus, Leptoseris yabei, Fungia molucensis, Lobophyllia robusta, Merulina ampliata, Platygyra versifora, Euphyllia glabrescens, Tubastraea frondes, Stylophora pistillata, Sarcophyton throchelliophorum, and Sinularia species.
Among the recorded species of seabird are the Brown Booby, Common Kingfisher and Malaysian Plover.
Turtles in the park include the Hawksbill turtle, Loggerhead sea turtle [left photo], and Olive Ridley.


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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakatobi_National_Park
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Coordinates:   5°44'45"S   123°56'37"E

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  • this tag created in two part, to encompass the limitation for UL1 for creating tag with area more than 2000 km2
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