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The Kaziranga National Park

Kaziranga had an area of 232sq.m when it began its journey as a proposed reserve forest on June 1, 1905.
Kaziranga National Park lies partly in Golaghat District and partly in Nagaon District of Assam.
It is the oldest park in Assam, which now covers an area of 430 Sqkms along the river Brahmaputra on the North and the KarbiAnglong hills on the South.

  • Kaziranga National Park a world heritage site is famous for the Great Indian one horned rhinoceros; the landscape of Kaziranga is of sheer forest, tall elephant grass, rugged reeds, marshes & shallow pools.

It has been declared as National Park in 1974.
It is inhabited by the world's largest population of one-horned rhinoceroses, as well as many mammals, including tigers, elephants, panthers and bears, and thousands of birds.
The KNP is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1985.
The National Highway 37 passes through the park area and tea estates, hemmed by table-top tea bushes.
According to the last rhino census in March, the KNP has an estimated 2,413 rhinos.
The park also has 57% of the world’s wild water buffalo population, one of the largest groups of Asian elephants and 21 Royal Bengal tigers per 100sq.km – arguably the highest striped cat density.
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