Mollem National Park, formally the Bhagwan Mahaveer Sanctuary and Mollem National Park, is a protected area of about 240 square kilometers in the Western Ghats of Goa, India, in the Dharbandora region near the Karnataka border, with a national park core of 107 square kilometers first declared in 1978 after the surrounding sanctuary was created in 1969. The park protects Bengal tigers, leopards, gaur, sambar deer and pangolins among 722 recorded flowering plant species, 128 of them endemic, and is home to the Dudhsagar Falls, at 310 meters the tallest waterfall in Goa, and the twelfth century Tambdi Surla temple.
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1. Bhagwan Mahaveer Sanctuary and Mollem National Park (Wikipedia)
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Bhagwan Mahaveer Sanctuary and Mollem National Park is a 240 square kilometres (93 sq mi) protected area located in the Western Ghats of West India, in Dharbandora taluk, Goa State, along the eastern border with Karnataka.
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Goa forest department
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Goa forest department
View the Source 2. Wikidata: Mollem National Park
- Wikidata Q2397554, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata P2046 (area), preferred/latest rank
- Wikidata P31 (instance of) = Q46169
- Wikidata Q2397554 P571 inception
- Part Of: India, Wikidata item, property P17 (country)
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