Kaziranga
Kaziranga National Park is situated on the south bank of the Brahmaputra river in Assam. It is famous for the stronghold of the
armoured one-horned rhinoceros. Stretching over an area
of 430 km², Kaziranga is one of the last refuges of the Indian rhino. The national park is a vast stretch of coarse, tall
elephant grass, marshland and dense tropical moist broadleaf forests.
Kaziranga was declared a reserve forest in 1908 by British and was officially closed for shooting. By 1950 the area was a
wildlife sanctuary,
and in 1974 it was designated a national park. Bounded by the misty blue
hills of Barail and Karbi
Anglong to the south, the national park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985. Today it holds the world's largest
population of Indian rhinos numbering more than one thousand.
Kaziranga is home also to elephants, sloth bears, tigers, leopards, jungle cats, hog badgers, capped
langurs, hoolock gibbons, wild boars, jackals, porcupines, pythons, wild buffaloes, Indian bison, swamp
deer, sambars and hog deer. Besides
these, the park has a respectable avian population, which increases considerably in the
winter, when migrating birds visit the park.
GENERAL INFORMATION
- Area of the Park : 430 km²
- Best Season : November to March.
- Closed Season : Mid-April to Mid-October.
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