Lorentz National Park - West Papua

The beauty of the Lorentz National Park - West Papua : Lorentz National Park is a national park located in the province of Papua, Indonesia. With an area of ​​25,000 km ² Lorentz is the largest national park in Southeast Asia.


This national park has a high biodiversity and cultural diversity supported awesome. It is estimated that culture 30,000 years old and is the residence of tribal Nduga, Western Dani, Amungme, Sempan and Asmat. Chances are there are more people living in the remote wilderness that has not entered into a relationship with modern humans.

Asmat sculpture famous sculpture skills. According to belief, the tribe is identical to the forest or the trees. The trunk symbolizes the human body, its branches as arms, and the fruit as a human head. The tree is considered as the lives of their ancestors. Asmat community system that respects the tree, it applies to rivers, mountains, etc.
In addition to having a very high biodiversity, there are also some specific and unique presence in the Puncak Jaya glaciers and rivers that disappeared several kilometers into the ground in the Valley Balliem

Go to the Lorentz National Park, from the northern town of Timika region using aviation pioneers and to the south by ship through the Port of Sawa Erma, followed by the path to several locations

Season to visit: August s / d in December each year.

arbor (Zaglossus bruijnii), pig snout short spines (Tachyglossus aculeatus), 4 types of possum, wallaby, bobcat, and tree kangaroos

Lorentz National Park designated as a World Natural Heritage Site by UNESCO and Natural Heritage of ASEAN by the ASEAN countries

The park is still not mapped, explored and there are many native plants, animals and culture. Its area also contained mineral supplies, and large-scale mining operations are also active in the surrounding park. There is also a Lorentz National Park Conservation Project which consists of a community initiative for the conservation and ecology of communal heritage to be around National Parks this Loretz.

From 2003 to present, WWF-Indonesia Region Sahul Papua're doing mapping indigenous territories in the Lorentz National Park. Year 2003 - 2006, WWF has mapped the Territory Lorentz National Park in the District (District) Kurima Yahukimo and Year 2006-2007 This mapping is done in the district of Asmat regency Sawaerma

Lorentz designated as a national park in 1997, so the facility / facilities for the convenience of visitors is still very limited, and not all objects and natural tourist attraction in this park have been identified and developed.

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