| Mount Ciremai National Park | |
|---|---|
| Taman Nasional Gunung Ciremai | |
IUCN category II (national park) | |
Lake at the foot of Mt Ciremai (ca.1920-33) | |
  Gunung Ciremai NP Location in Java  Gunung Ciremai NP Gunung Ciremai NP (Indonesia) | |
| Location | West Java, Indonesia |
| Nearest city | Cirebon |
| Coordinates | 6°55′S108°20′E / 6.917°S 108.333°E Coordinates: 6°55′S108°20′E / 6.917°S 108.333°E |
| Area | 155 km2 |
| Established | 2004 |
| Visitors | 15,126(in 2007 [1] ) |
| Governing body | Ministry of Environment and Forestry |
| Website | btngciremai (Blog) |
Mount Ciremai National Park is located around 50 km to the south of the city of Cirebon in West Java, Indonesia. The park extends into the Kuningan and Majalengka regencies south of Cirebon. The park surrounds Mt Ceremai, an active volcano, the highest peak in West Java. Groups of hikers, including parties of students, often climb the peak although care is needed.
Cirebon is a port city on the north coast of the Indonesian island of Java. It is located in the province of West Java near the provincial border with Central Java, approximately 297 km (185 mi) east of Jakarta, at 6°43′S108°34′E. The administrative area of Cirebon is very small in extent, however, its dense suburbs sprawl into the surrounding regency; the official metropolitan area encompasses this regency as well as the city, and covers an area of 1,021.88 km2 (394.55 sq mi), with a 2010 Census population of 2,366,340.
West Java is a province of Indonesia. It is located in the western part of the island of Java and its capital and largest urban center is Bandung, although much of its population in the northwest corner of the province live in areas suburban to the larger urban area of Jakarta, though that city itself lies outside the administrative province. With a population of 46.3 million West Java is the most populous of Indonesia's provinces.
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It is the world's largest island country, with more than seventeen thousand islands, and at 1,904,569 square kilometres, the 14th largest by land area and the 7th largest in combined sea and land area. With over 261 million people, it is the world's 4th most populous country as well as the most populous Muslim-majority country. Java, the world's most populous island, contains more than half of the country's population.
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Various types of endemic or endangered flora and fauna are found in the park [2] which include the following:
- Flora: pines ( Pinus merkusii ), Castanopsis javanica (known locally as Saninten), Randu tiang (Fragraera blumii), Nangsi (Villubrunes rubescens), Macaranga ( Macaranga denticulatan ), Pasang ( Lithocarpus sundaicus ), Elaeocarpus ( Elaeocarpus stipularis ), various species of fig trees ( Ficus ), Ardisia cymosa , and Platea latifolia,
- Fauna: leopards, deer ( Muntiacus muntjak or Javan muntjac), Echidna ( Zaglossus bruijni ), monkeys ( Javan surili ), the Javan hawk-eagle and various species of python.
Pinus merkusii, the Merkus pine or Sumatran pine, is a pine native to the Malesia region of southeast Asia, mainly in Indonesia in the mountains of northern Sumatra, and with two outlying populations in central Sumatra on Mount Kerinci and Mount Talang, and in the Philippines on Mindoro and in the Zambales Mountains on western Luzon.
Castanopsis javanica, the Javan chestnut-oak, is a tree in the beech family Fagaceae. The specific epithet javanica is from the Latin, meaning "of Java".
Macaranga is a large genus of Old World tropical trees of the family Euphorbiaceae and the only genus in the subtribe Macaranginae. Native to Africa, Australasia, Asia and various islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, the genus comprises over 300 different species. It was first described as a genus in 1806, based on specimens collected on the Island of Mauritius.
