Kenting National Park

Kenting Park

synonym

Kenting National Park generally refers to Kenting park

Kenting National Park is the first National Park in Taiwan, China. The plan was announced on September 1, 1982, and the management office was established on January 1, 1984. It is the first National Park in China and the only tropical National Park on Taiwan Island. It is located in Pingtung County and on Hengchun Peninsula, the southernmost tip of Taiwan. The land area is 18084 hectares, the sea area is 15185 hectares, and the total land and sea area is 33269 hectares. The park is 24 kilometers long from north to South and 24 kilometers wide from east to west. The whole area is tropical. It is 90km away from Kaohsiung, the second largest city in Taiwan, and 140km away from Tainan, the fourth largest city in Taiwan. It is one of the popular tourist attractions in Taiwan. The first director of the park management office is Shi Mengxiong, who used to be the county magistrate of Pingtung County. The current director is Ms. Shi JinFang.

history

Kenting National Park is located in the south of Hengchun Peninsula, the southern tip of Taiwan. Founded in January 1984, it is the first National Park in Taiwan. Kenting National Park is the only "National Park" in the tropical area of Taiwan

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geographical environment

In 1982, Kenting National Park was established on Hengchun Peninsula, the southernmost tip of Taiwan Island, with a total area of 32631 hectares, including 17731 hectares of land area and 14900 hectares of sea area. There are clear blue sea on three sides, Pacific Ocean on the East, Taiwan Strait on the west, Bashi Strait on the South and Nanren mountain on the north. The terrain is changeable and the landscape resources are extremely rich.

The southernmost promontory of the peninsula, e-luan-bi, is just opposite to the "cat nose" at the boundary between Taiwan Strait and Bashi Strait. An 18 meter high lighthouse stands on the "oluanbi". If you stand on the lighthouse, you can see the rolling low hills and flat platform at the southern end of Taiwan Island, and enjoy the beautiful scenery of a corner of the sky and the coral reef forest.

Kenting National Park is located in Hengchun Peninsula, the southernmost tip of Taiwan Island. It is surrounded by sea on three sides, Pacific Ocean on the East, Taiwan Strait on the West and Bashi Strait on the south. The western part of the land area includes Guishan mountain, the platform cliff and coastal zone of hongchai in the south, and the southern part includes maobitou, Nanwan, Kenting forest recreation area, erluanbi in the south of Longluantan, along the Pacific coast in the East, through jialeshui in the north and Nanren mountain in the north. The sea area includes Nanwan sea area and Guishan sea area within one kilometer from the coast to Nanren bay through maobitou and oluanbi.

Kenting National Park geographically belongs to the tropical climate zone. The temperature is warm all year round, tropical plants are derived, the surrounding sea area is clear, and corals grow vigorously.

District attractions

partition

Both land and sea areas are divided into five management zones, namely, ecological protection zone, special landscape zone, historical relics protection zone, youcong rest zone and general control zone; among them, the ecological protection zone of Kenting National Park includes land ecological protection zone and sea ecological protection zone.

The ecological reserve is the core part of the park, which preserves the original state, with a variety of biological species and typical representativeness. It is mainly used for academic research, and visitors are not allowed to enter. The special landscape area is composed of special natural coastal coral reefs, tropical rain forests, winter migratory bird habitat in Longluantan, big and small Jianshi mountains and other beautiful landscapes. There are more than 60 prehistoric sites such as Kenting, oluanbi, Longkeng, and many cultural heritages and historic sites in the preservation area. Recreation area is an area for outdoor recreational activities and limited utilization of biological resources. It has built appropriate recreational facilities and venues for activities.

There are five terrestrial ecological protection zones, namely banana Bay ecological protection zone, nanrenshan ecological protection zone, Shadao ecological protection zone, Longkeng ecological protection zone and sheding high coral reef ecological protection zone; there are four marine ecological protection zones, namely, haisheng-1 ecological protection zone, haisheng-2 ecological protection zone, haisheng-3 ecological protection zone and haisheng-4 ecological protection zone.

Kenting National Park has more than 1000 tropical tree species, which is the first tropical plant forest in Taiwan and one of the eight experimental forest farms in the world. The most special thing is that there are a large number of migratory birds flying from the north every year in Kenting Park, which is a wonder. The coral landscape on the bottom of the park is colorful, which is one of the scenic spots in Kenting park. There are many special features in Kenting park Landscapes such as qiedong giant wood, artificial lake, stalagmite cave, silver leaf ban gen, Guanhai tower, fairy cave, yixiantian, Churong Valley, qiape cliff and other tourist attractions are very worth visiting.

Kenting National Park is a national park covering both land and sea areas. The land area includes Guishan to hongchaitai cliff and coastal zone, Longluantan, maobitou, Nanwan, Kenting forest recreation area, erluanbi, along the Pacific coast in the East through jialeshui, and to Nanren mountain area in the north; The sea area of Kenting park includes Nanwan sea area, Guishan sea area from maobitou and oluanbi north to Nanren Bay, and sea area within one kilometer from the coast. Kenting park is divided into three areas: the sightseeing area integrating plant landscape and artificial architecture, the unique terrain landscape and plant landscape, and the original coral reef rainforest zone. The original coral reef rainforest zone is not open to the outside world, so tourists should not enter by themselves

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scenic spot

Great Jianshan

The official name is "dashijian", which is one of the landmarks of Kenting. It is a whole rock protruding on the grassland, and is the highest point of Kenting peninsula. You must enter the mountain from the gate of the archway of Kenting National Forest Recreation Area and cross the Kenting pasture. There are climbing ropes along the edge line for climbing. The peak overlooks the whole Hengchun Peninsula, with beautiful scenery. It takes about 3-4 hours to go up and down the mountain. However, Article 13 (8) of the National Park Law of Taiwan has banned the climbing of dajianshan, frog stone and sailstone in the National Park area.

Longluantan

Located on the west side of Kenting National Park, Hengchun is on the way to maobitou, covering an area of 137 hectares. Originally, it was a low-lying terrain. In previous years, it accumulated water in rainy season. Although it was planned to be built as a reservoir during the Japanese occupation period, it did not come true. After the war, in 1948, a special fund was raised to build Longluantan as a reservoir, which was an important water conservancy facility in Hengchun Peninsula. The pond water flows northward through the artificial drain through the nearby streams, and then flows into Baoli stream through Sigou and Tougou, and then goes out to sea from Sheliao, which is only for farmland irrigation. Every autumn and winter, it becomes a place where migratory birds gather to spend the winter. It is an excellent bird watching spot.

There is a natural center next to longluan lake. You can enjoy the whole lake surface through the glass wall. The observation station in the center provides multiple telescopes and two sets of broadcast monitoring systems, and has four bird display areas. It is a well-equipped bird observation station. Longluantan natural center is also the site of rare plant artificial restoration area, and the original tree species are cultivated artificially in the way of ecological garden. The ecological park covers an area of about 1.5 hectares, which is divided into nine areas: rare plant area, bird attracting plant area, butterfly attracting plant area, grassland shrub plant area, flower and fruit watching plant area, mountain plant area, coastal forest plant area, coral reef plant area and hedgerow plant area. The area is rich in biological resources with high diversity of plant species. It is a natural habitat for ecological conservation and biological groups.

Zoar

Cat nose is the boundary between Taiwan Strait and Bashi Strait, and forms the southernmost ends of Taiwan island with oluanbi. Maobitou has a coral reef that breaks off from the sea cliff. It looks like a squatting cat, so it gets its name. Maobitou is a typical coastal erosion topography of coral reefs. The coral reefs are uplifted out of the sea due to orogenic movement. They are subjected to long-term wave erosion, repeated drying and wetting, long-term salt crystallization, gravel drilling erosion, and dissolution, resulting in such peculiar landscapes as cliff collapse, potholes, reef pillars, and interlayer caves. The coastline looks like a pleated skirt, so it is called skirt reef coast. It is of great value in terrain teaching and research.

Baisha Bay

Baisha Bay is located on the west coast of Hengchun Peninsula and the northwest coastline of maobitou. Also known as "white sand". Baisha Bay belongs to the coral reef coast. It used to be a small fishing port, called Baisha port. This area is blessed with a 100 meter long beach, which is made up of pure white shell sand. As few tourists visit, it still maintains its natural style. You should be careful when you are swimming here. There are three strong undercurrents here, so you should pay special attention to them.

Nanren Lake

"Nanren mountain ecological reserve" is located in Nanren village, Manzhou Township, east of Kenting National Park. The highest altitude of the reserve is no more than 526 meters. It is one of the few low altitude tropical monsoon forests in Taiwan. Meanwhile, tropical, subtropical and temperate plants are distributed in Nanren mountain area. Affected by the special monsoon and seasonal distribution of rainfall in Hengchun Peninsula, there are more than 2200 species of plants. Such as "big head tea" white like camellia, is the prevailing northeast monsoon windward steep slope of common plants.

"Nanren Lake" is located in a natural valley. It is accessible by only one trail, 4.3km one way. Along the way, there are abundant ecological features, and "green spotted butterfly" and "yellow butterfly" can often be seen. Nanren lake used to be a paddy field. Because the water outlet in the east of the paddy field is blocked, the water accumulation increases day by day, forming a broad lake. Before this vast water area, there is a small pool, which is the real "Nanren ancient lake". However, due to the small area of the lake, it is easy to be ignored. The "yellow grey crab" found near the lake is a freshwater crab endemic to Taiwan. It is one of the land crabs. It is also the only crab species that does not need to go to the seaside to breed.

Nanrenshan is an ecological reserve, which is only for academic research, and tourists are not allowed to enter. You must apply to the Kenting National Park Management Office in advance, and you must do pre trip education before you go to the tourist center of the Kenting park

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