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Garamba National Park is one of the national parks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is located in the Orientale Region of DRC and is governed by l’Institut Congolais pour la Conservation de la Nature or ICCN. The area of the whole park is 1,900 square miles or 4,920 square kilometers – IUCN categorized it as a Category II National Park status. Garamba National Park is also a World Heritage Site as recognized by UNESCO in 1980 with criteria of vii and x. It is one of the places to visit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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The park's immense savannahs, grasslands, and woodlands, interspersed with gallery forests along the river banks and the swampy depressions, are home to four large mammals: the elephant, giraffe, hippopotamus, and above all the white rhinoceros.
Covering vast grass savannas and woodlands interspersed with gallery forests and marshland depressions, Garamba National Park is located in the north-eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the transition zone between the dense tropical forests of the Congo Basin and the Guinea-Sudano savannas.
It contains the last worldwide population of the northern white rhinoceros, endemic sub-species of the Congolese giraffe, and a mixed population of elephants, combining forest elephants, bush elephants, and individuals demonstrating morphological characteristics common to the two elephant sub-species. It is also characterized by an exceptionally high level of biomass of great herbivores as a result of the vegetation productivity of the environment.
The Park is also one of the rare places in Africa where one can observe both the African forest elephant Loxodonta africana cyclotis and the African bush elephant Loxodonta africana Africana, as well as hybrid elephants presenting morphological characteristics common to both sub-species. A very large population of African buffalo also displays intermediary forms between the forest buffalo Syncerus caffer nanus and the savannah buffalo Syncerus caffer aequinoctialis.
