centralborneo.net - Tanjung Puting National Park is a national park located in southwestern peninsula of West Kotawaringin, Central Kalimantan province. Tanjung Putting was originally a nature reserve and wildlife reserves with a total area of 305 000 ha set by the Dutch government on June 13, 1936.
Then on May 12, 1984 by the Ministry of Forestry, Tanjung Puting National Park designated as a breadth of 415 040 ha. Geographically located between 2 ° 35′-3 ° 20 ‘South Latitude and 111 ° 50′-112 ° 15′ E covering Kumai district in the West Kotawaringin and Hanau district and Downstream Seruyan in Seruyan regency.
The government has provided land use zones in the region with an area of 14,000 hectares for the development and construction of tourist facilities.
Taman Nasional Tanjung Puting (TNTP) is a natural rainforest, home to a unique variety of animal species. The most well-known species that make this National Park infamous is a harmless animal Orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus). The park is also famous for its population of proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus), a large monkey that can only be found in Kalimantan. Other primates are found here including Agile Gibbon (Hylobates Agilis), red leaf-eating monkey or maroon langur (Presbytis rubicunda), silver langur (Presbytis Cristata), crab-eating monkeys or long tail macaws (Macaca fascicularis), and pigtail macaws (Macaca Nemestriana).
This park also has more than 200 species of birds, including Sindang lawe (Ciconia stormii) were included in the 20 rarest birds in the world. Tanjung Puting is one place for all kinds of bird species ”great alba” colonies like Egreta alba, Arhinga melanogaster and Ardea purpurea.
The main types of flora in this area is forest Heath and insectivorous plants like sac semar (Nephentes sp). True peat swamp forests are found in the center of the area and on the edge of some rivers, and there are plants that have roots knees, and aerial roots. Along the banks of all rivers in the region are freshwater swamp forest (alluvial), has a complex plant species and types of woody vines, epiphytes and ferns spread in large numbers. In the area north to south there are desert areas with extensive shrub plant species, results from the destruction of forests by logging and burning Heath. Commonly found in pockets along the river Sekonyer and its tributaries. Plant at the headwaters of major rivers consist of marsh grasses dominated by Pandanus sp and stretch macrophyte (lily) that float, like the Crinum sp covering coastal mangrove forests (mangroves) and further inland is the region in the brackish estuaries along The main river, there is a native plant palm. overgrown plant genus Casuarina, Pandanus, Podocarpus, Scaevola, and Barringtonia.
Other plant species that can be found in TNTP is meranti (Shorea sp.), Ramin (Gonystylus bancanus), jelutung (Dyera costulata), aloes, wood street, keruing (Dipterocarpus sp), ironwood (Eusideroxylon zwageri), tengkawang (Dracomentelas sp.), Dacrydium, Lithocarpus, Castonopsis, Schiima, Hopea, Melaleuca, Dyospyros, Beckia, Jackia, Licuala, Vatica, Tetramerista, Palaquium, Campnosperma, Casuarina, Ganoa, Mesua, Dactylocladus, Astonia, Durio, Eugenia, Calophyllum, Pandanus, Imperata cylindrica, Crinum sp., Sonneratia, Rhizophora, Barringtonia, Nipah (Nypa fruticans), Podocarpus, and Scaevola. As for the lower layers of forest vegetation consists of rattan species and regeneration / tree saplings.
Map of Tanjung Puting National Park
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