Morne Trois Pitons National Park in Dominica

Morne Trois Pitons National Park - Dominica

More excessively more of course tropical wood melts with regional volcanic qualities of the big scientific interest in this national park in the center put on the 1,342 m high volcano famously as a Morne Trois climbing hooks. With his hasty slope and deeply cut valleys, 50 fumaroles, to hot springs, three freshwater lakes, a ' cooking lake ' and five volcanoes, laid on nearly 7,000 of the park ha, together with the richest biodiversity by the smaller Antilles, Morne Trois climbing hooks presents national park a rare combination of natural qualities of the world heritage value.

Wide Report

Morne Trois climbing hooks is laid 13 kms in the east by the town of Roseau in the highlanders of the south-central Dominica, and it is the basaltic according to point one remains from a previous volcano which rises to about 1,300 ms within 8 kms of the sea. The scenery is characterized by volcanic piles with the hasty slope, and deeply cut valleys (glacis slope). There is also fumarole famously as a valley of the devastation (or great Soufriere), with fumaroles, to hot springs, mud pots, sulphur openings and the cooking lake which is second largest in the world of his kind. The valley is surrounded a big amphitheater by mountains and the existence from at least three separate craters where steam openings, small ponds, and hot springs bubble by the reason. The cooking of the lake will surround by cliffs and is covered almost always by clouds of the steam. The valley of the devastation drains in the point Mulatre river which flows into the Atlantic.

Other excellent qualities in the area enclose the emerald Green puddle, fed by the Middleham cases; stinking hole, a lava tube in the middle of the wood; and the Boeri and freshwater lakes. The freshwater lake is the biggest and second most deeply from four freshwater lakes of the Dominica. The Boeri lake is second largest in the Dominica, and is laid in the crater of a gone out volcano. Both lakes are separated each other by Morne Macaque (1,221 m) and change thoroughly with the season. As one thinks, both have originated about 25,000-30,000 years ago. The park also encloses almost all upper reaches of the streams and rivers in southern half of the island. Five natural vegetation zones are recognized within the area plus a small Fleck of the penetrating agricultural land. Elves-like wood / the cloud wood which seems in the highest elevations more than 914 ms and almost by the fog and subject to strong hoists, rains and cold temperatures constantly is covered. Main vegetation types exist of mosses, ferns, bushes and inhibited trees overcast by lichens.

Montane thicket, between elves-like and montane woods Übergangs-ist, is controlled by spindly trees. The mostly general tree found on the precipitous slope is Podocarpus coriaceus, the only home conifer of the island.

The ripe rain forest which grows less than 460 ms. This zone contains the most luxuriant growth.

The Montane rain forest which grows more than 610 ms is often in the cloud lid or fog. The kind composition is diminished to this of the ripe rain forest, still a lot in the stature similarly. Nichtgefäßepiphytes cover most montane rain forest works.

The event of at least 7 kinds of the mammal, 50 birds, 12 reptiles and the amphibians and 12 crustaceans is indicated. Separated by the introduced opossum and agouti there are no land mammals in the area. Other introduced mammals enclose wild cats and pigs and rats. Birds enclose the imperial Amazon and red necked Amazoner to parrots. The imperial Amazon was earlier in general, however now it is threatened in the Dominica. The red necked Amazon was also a generally seen kind, but now is seldom observed in only some small areas of the park. There are no poisonous snakes in the Dominica. Boa grows to 3.6 ms in the length and is general in Morne Trois climbing hooks. Three kinds of lizards, including the endemic, exist in the park.

Historical Data

Morne Trois climbing hooks national park was suggested first as a forest reserve in 1952. The area was called national park under the national parks and Gesetz-No 16 of the protected areas of July, 1975.

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