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Dibru Saikhowa National Park
is the largest national park of Assam,
spread over an area of 650 sq. km. It
is located about 13 kms north of Tinsukia
town and about 515 kms from Guwahati
and is bounded by the Brahmaputra river
and Arunachal hills in the north and
Dibru and Patkai hills on the south.
It was declared a wildlife Sanctuary
in 1986 by the government of Assam by
uniting two Reserve forests, viz., Dibru
and Saikhowa including some other areas.
It attained National Park status in
1999 restricting its core area to 340
sq. km. with a large buffer zone. Dibru
Saikhowa National Park is one of the
19 (nineteen) biodiversity hotspots
of the world. It mainly consists
of semi wet evergreen forests, tropical
moist deciduous forest, bamboo, canebrakes
and grasslands. Situated in the flood
plains of Brahmaputra, at an altitude
of 118 m above sea level, Dibru-Saikhowa
is a safe haven for many extremely rare
and endangered species of wild life
including over 300 avifauna both endangered
and migratory, as well as various species
of shrubs, herbs and rare medicinal
plants.It is also home to wild ferral
horses.
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