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Langtang National Park

National Park of Nepal

Summary

National Park of Nepal

Field	Value
name	Langtang National Park
alt_name
iucn_category	II
photo	Starry night in Langtang National Park.jpg
photo_caption	Langtang National Park
map	Nepal
relief	1
location	Nepal
nearest_city	Kathmandu
coordinates
area	1710 km2
established	1976
governing_body	Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation

Langtang National Park is a national park in north-central Nepal. It was established in 1976 as Nepal's first Himalayan national park and the country's fourth protected area. It covers an area of 1710 km2 in the Nuwakot, Rasuwa and Sindhulpalchok Districts of the central Himalayan region. It contains 26 village communities and includes the Langtang valley. In the north and east it is linked with Qomolangma National Nature Preserve in the Tibet Autonomous Region. The eastern and western boundaries follow the Bhote Koshi and the Trishuli river, respectively.

The Gosainkunda lake is located at an elevation of 4300 m inside the park. The Dorje Lakpa range at 6988 m bisects the park from west–east to south–east. The summit of Langtang Lirung is the highest point in the park at 7245 m.

Langtang National Park is part of the Sacred Himalayan Landscape.

History

In 1970, royal approval designated the establishment of Langtang National Park as the first protected area in the Himalayas. The national park was gazetted in 1976 and extended by a buffer zone of 420 km2 in 1998.

On 31 July 1992, Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashed into the park. The Airbus A310 was on approach to Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu. All 113 people on board were killed.

In April 2015, the village of Langtang located within the park was destroyed by an avalanche of ice, rock and mud triggered by the April 2015 Nepal earthquake. At least 215 people were killed. In 2016, the International Astronomical Union named a 9.8km wide crater on Mars after the village, as a tribute.

Climate

The climate of the park is dominated by the southwest summer monsoon; most of the annual precipitation occurs from June to September, and temperatures vary greatly due to the extreme difference in elevation.

Flora and fauna

Langtang National Park exhibits a high diversity of 14 vegetation types in 18 ecosystem types, ranging from upper tropical forests below 1000 m m altitude to alpine scrub and perennial ice.

References

(2007). "Nepal Biodiversity Resource Book. Protected Areas, Ramsar Sites, and World Heritage Sites". International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology, in cooperation with United Nations Environment Programme, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific.
(1991). "Geographic Information Systems for Assessing Habitat and Estimating Population of Red Pandas in Langtang National Park, Nepal". Ambio.
(2003). "The Langtang National Park: a proposed first Biosphere Reserve in Nepal". Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka.
(2006). "Conservation Biology in Asia". Nepal Society for Conservation Biology, Asia Section and Resources Himalaya Foundation.
Heinen, J. T. and J. N. Mehta (2000). ''Emerging Issues in Legal and Procedural Aspects of Buffer Zone Management with Case Studies from Nepal''. Journal of Environment and Development 9 (1): 45–67.
Ranter, H.. "ASN Aircraft accident Airbus A310-304 HS-TID Kathmandu-Tribhuvan Airport (KTM)".
Cheung, H.. "Mars crater named after Nepal quake village Langtang".
(2008). "Himalayan ''Semnopithecus entellus'' at Langtang National Park, Nepal: Diet, activity patterns, and resources". International Journal of Primatology.

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