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national park popularly known as mini Kaziranga, is located on the north bank
of the river Brahmaputra. The park covering an area of 72-sq-kms was
established as a sanctuary in 1985 and declared a National Park on 13th April
1999. Famous for its natural scenic beauty, the park is about 150-km
from Guwahati and 31-km from Tezpur, the nearest town.
The fauna found here include the one-horned rhinoceros, elephants,
leopard, sambar, barking deer, tiger, varieties of water birds, green pigeon,
florican, teal, geese etc. The park is also famous for its migratory
birds from places as far as from America like the milky white pelicans. |
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