Virunga National Park World Heritage Site

Official name

Virunga National Park | UNESCO

Country

Democratic Republic of the Congo | Map

Continent

Africa

Location

Province of North-Kivu and Orientale province
0.9166° Lat, 29.1666° Lon | Map

Code

63

Time Zone

Africa/Kinshasa (WAT, +0100)

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Category

Natural

Description

Inscribed 1979. Virunga National Park (covering an area of 790,000 ha) comprises an outstanding diversity of habitats, ranging from swamps and steppes to the snowfields of Rwenzori at an altitude of over 5,000 m, and from lava plains to the savannahs on the slopes of volcanoes. Mountain gorillas are found in the park, some 20,000 hippopotamuses live in the rivers and birds from Siberia spend the winter there.