About Kanger Valley National Park:
- Location:
- It is located in Jagdalpur, in the Bastar district of Chhattisgarh state.
- It is located on the banks of the Kholaba River (tributary of the Godavari River).
- The National Park derives its name from the Kanger River, which flows in its length.
- It got the status of a national park in 1982.
- The entire Park constitutes the core area and there is no buffer zone.
- Topography: It is noted for its highly heterogeneous land formations, ranging from low, flat, and gentle areas to steep slopes, plateaus, valleys, and stream courses.
- It is home to three exceptional caves, famous for their amazing geological structures: Kutumbasar, Kailash, and Dandak-Stalagmites and Stalactites.
- National Park is known for the presence of underground limestone caves with dripstone and floston. The stalagmites and stalactite formations are still increasing.
- Tirathgarh Waterfall is located in the park.
- The Park also has a sizable tribal population.
- Flora: It is a typical mixed humid deciduous type of forest in which the Sal, Saugaun, teak, and bamboo trees are available in abundance.
- Fauna:
- Major wild animals include tigers, mouse deer, leopards, wildcat, sambar, chital, barking deer, langurs, jackals, rhesus macaque, flying squirrel, etc.
- The aerial fauna at the park consists of common hill myna, red jungle fowl, spotted owlet, racket-tailed drongos, parrots, etc.
