National Parks Bukit Baka - Bukit Raya

Bukit Baka – Bukit Raya National Park which has an area of 181,090 hectares located in the border province of West Kalimantan and Central Kalimantan has a tropical rain forest ecosystem types that dominate the Schwaner Mountains. Bukit Baka-Bukit Raya is a conjunction of Baka Hill in West Kalimantan and Bukit Raya in Central Kalimantan. The indigenous people around the national park is derived from the Dayak tribe Limbai, Ransa, Kenyilu, Ot Danum, Malahui, Kahoi and Kahayan. Crafts and traditional ceremonies is the work of their culture that can be seen is the ancestral wooden statues made of wood bulian. The Plants which is the largest parasitic flower growing in the Bukit Baka - Bukit Raya National Park is Rafflesia (Rafflesia sp.). Other endemic plants are Symplocos rayae, Gluta sabahana, Dillenia beccariana, Lithocarpus coopertus, Selaginnella magnifica, and Tetracera glaberrima.

Animals can be found is leopard (Neofelis nebulosa), orangutan (Pongo Satyrus), bear (Helarctos malayanus euryspilus), red monkey (Presbytis rubicunda rubicunda) and civet (Visvessa tangalunga). Birds living in Bukit Baka – Bukit Raya National Park, among others "rangkok badak (rhinoceros Buceros Borneoensis), black hornbills (Anthracoceros malayanus), "kuau raja" (Argusianus argus grayi), and the "borneo pygmy kuau" (Polyplectron schleiermacheri). "borneo pygmy kuau" is endemic to the island of Borneo is the most threatened with extinction.

Center for Tourism in  Bukit Baka - Bukit Raya National Park is rafting on the river Ella (West Kalimantan), Hiking in Baka Hill Mountain (1.617 m asl) and Bukit Raya Mountain (2.278 m asl). Hot springs along Apoi, in the village of Batu Panahan, exactly on the river Bemban (Katingan creeks). Demat waterfall which is the fault Ehud Ella river upstream. Cultural tourism for those who admire the tour and enjoy the works of indigenous cultures is the home of Dayak betang (traditional longhouses inhabited by several heads of families), ancestor sculptures made of bulian wood.


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