National Parks Laiwangi - Wanggameti

Laiwangi - Wanggameti National Park has rain forest classification and Elfin Forest situated in East Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara. With the topography around 6% - 60%, Laiwangi - Wanggameti National Park have a flat rate up to extreme steepness. In general, the type of ecosystem in the Laiwangi - Wanggameti National Park include mangrove forest, beach forest, tropical dry forest and season with lowland rain forest to mountain. Laiwanggi-Wanggameti National Park are water catchment areas. Laiwangi - Wanggameti National Parks includes two river basins of watershed and sub watershed Kambaniru Nggongi. 

Laiwangi - Wanggameti National Park is a habitat for typical flora and fauna of Sumba. There are other plant species between forest Cashew (Syzygium sp.), "Pulai" (Alstonia scholaris), "Banyan" (Ficus sp.), Canary (Canarium oleosum), Cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum), "Honggi" (Myristica littoralis), "Suren" (Toona sureni) , "Taduk" (Sterculia foetida), "Kesambi" (Schleichera oleosa) and "Hangkang" (Palaquium obovatum). Also in Laiwangi - Wanggameti National Park have a high diversity of animals, namely 43 species of butterflies, including three endemic species of butterfly halipron (Troides haliphron, Elimnias amoena, Sumalia Chilo, Ideopsis oberthurii, and Athyma karita and there are 78 types of where 8 species of birds are endemic Sumba. There is also a long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis fascicularis), wild boar (Sus sp.), "Komodo" (Varanus Salvator), Timor python (Python timorensis), and partridges (Gallus Gallus). In addition, a major population of birds "walik rawamanu" (Ptilinopus dohertyi), Sumba pigeon (Treron teysmannii) and various other bird species such as "Gemak Sumba" (Turnix everetti), Cockatoos Cempaka (Cacatua sulphurea citrinocristata), Parrots (Lorius domicella), "Sikatan Sumba" (Ficedula harterti), "Kepodang Sungu Sumba" (Coracina dohertyi), and "Madu Sumba" (Nectarinia buettikoferi). 

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