🌲 Cross River National Park

Nigeria · Africa · National Park · 5.42°N, 8.58°E

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Cross River National Park
The Cross River National Park is a national park of Nigeria, located in Cross River State, Nigeria. There are two separate sections, Okwangwo and Oban. The park has a total area of about 4,000 km2, most of which consists of primary moist tropical rainforests in the North and Central parts, with mangrove swamps on the coastal zones. Parts of the park belong to the Guinea-Congolian region, with a closed canopy and scattered emergent trees reaching 40 or 50 metres in height.

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Quick facts

CountryNigeria
Continent / regionAfrica
Protection type🌲 National Park
Coordinates (approx.)5.42°N, 8.58°E · view on map

Cross River National Park is a national park in Nigeria, in Africa. The details of why Cross River National Park is ecologically important are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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Coordinates are an approximate area centre. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.

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