Kudremukh National Park spans Chikmagalur and Dakshina Kannada districts in Karnataka, India, its name meaning horse face after the shape of the mountain seen from one vantage point, and it protects about 601 square kilometers of tropical wet evergreen forest in the Western Ghats since 1987. Three major rivers, the Tunga, the Bhadra and the Netravathi, rise within the park, which receives roughly 7000 millimeters of rain a year across an altitude range from 100 to 1892 meters, and it is recognized as a Global Tiger Conservation priority area holding tigers, leopards, dholes, sloth bears, Malabar civets and lion tailed macaques among one of the twenty five biodiversity hotspots of the world.
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International DesignationUNESCO World Heritage Site 2 Sources
1. Kudremukh National Park (Wikipedia)
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In 1987, the Government of Karnataka declared these Reserved Forests as a National Park based on the above suggestion.
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Kudremukh National Park is a protected area in Chikmagalur and Dakshina Kannada districts of Indian state of Karnataka.
View the Source 2. Wikidata: Kudremukh National Park
- Wikidata Q123439915, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata P2046 (area), preferred/latest rank
- Wikidata P31 (instance of) = Q46169
- Wikidata Q123439915 P1435 heritage designation
- Part Of: India, Wikidata item, property P17 (country)
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