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Mount Leuser National Park

Mount Leuser National Park is one of the natural resources deserve the pride of Indonesia. Mount Leuser National Park is a nature reserve on the border of national park status of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, North Sumatra. This national park takes its name from the towering Mount Leuser with a height of 3404 meters above sea level in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam. This national park covers the natural ecosystems of the coast to high mountains covered by dense forests typical of tropical rain.

Gunung Leuser National Park
Mount Leuser National Park

Mount Leuser National Park is a representative type of coastal forest ecosystems, and tropical rain forest lowlands to the mountains.

Mount Leuser forest is very dense, typical of coastal forest and tropical rain forests. In it there are several rivers, lakes, hot springs, valleys, and waterfalls. Ecosystems are very beautiful and diverse landscape that includes the plains to the mountains. There are a variety of endangered species are protected, such as jungle cats, tigers, hornbills, orangutans, gibbons, snakes, butterflies, birds, Sumatran elephant, Sumatran rhinoceros, goat forest, and sambar deer. In addition, there are plants strangler (fig) and other rare plants, such as the giant flower "Rhizanthes zippelnii" in diameter 1.5 meters, Raflesia flowers, and leaves a giant umbrella.

In the Mount Leuser National Park area tends to be original and there are types of trees of high economic value and can still be found Orangutans and other primate species as well as a variety of birds.


Mount Leuser National Park

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