Nagarhole
National Park is one among India's best wildlife parks, established
in 1955 as a sanctuary and designated as a National park in 1975. Recently
it was renamed as Rajiv Gandhi National Park after the late Prime Minister
of India.
The park is located at Kodagu (Coorg) in Mysore
district in the state of Karnataka. The
vast area of the park, 572.90 sq km is united with Arikeri, Hatgat,
Nalkeri, Mysore reserve forests, streams, waterfalls, Hills and valleys etc .
Nagarhole is part of the 2400 sq km of forest which includes the Bandipur
National Park in Karnataka, Mudhumalai Wildlife Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu, Wayanad
Wildlife Sanctuary in Kerala which together constitute the Niligiri
Biosphere Reserve. This is the largest forest cover of its kind in South East
Asia. The altitude of Nagarhole Park varies between 700-850 meters. The maximum
temperature reaches 33 degrees C and the minimum is 14 degrees. |