Sangha Trinational World Heritage Site

Official name

Sangha Trinational | UNESCO

Country

Congo | Map

Continent

Africa

Location

2.6094° Lat, 16.5541° Lon | Map

Code

1380

Time Zone

Africa/Brazzaville (WAT, +0100)

Current Time

Category

Natural

Description

Inscribed 2012. Situated in the north-western Congo Basin, where Cameroon, Central African Republic and Congo meet, the site encompasses three contiguous national parks totalling around 750,000 ha. Much of the site is unaffected by human activity and features a wide range of humid tropical forest ecosystems with rich flora and fauna, including Nile crocodiles and goliath tigerfish, a large predator. Forest clearings support herbaceous species and Sangha is home to considerable populations of forest elephants, critically endangered western lowland gorilla, and endangered chimpanzee. The site’s environment has preserved the continuation of ecological and evolutionary processes on a huge scale and great biodiversity, including many endangered animal species.