Arunachal Pradesh is situated between 26o28 and 29o30 North latitudes and 97o30 and 97o30 East Longitudes covering an area of 83743 sq. km. Bio-geographically it is situated fin the Eastern Himalayan province, the richest biogeographical province of the Himalayan zone. The entire territory forms a complex hill system with varying elevations ranging from 50m in the foot-hills and gradually ascending to about 7000m, traversed throughout by a number of rivers and rivulets. The vegetation of Arunachal Pradesh falls under four broad climatic categories and can be classified in five broad forest types with a sixth type of secondary forests. These are tropical forests, sub tropical forests, pine forests, temperate forests and alpine forests. In the degraded forests bamboos and other grasses are of common occurrence. forest-green.jpg (17332 bytes) State Animal Mithun (Bos Frontails) State Bird Hornbill State Orchid Rynchostylis Retusa National Park Two Wildlife Sanctuaries Eight Orchid Sanctuary One Biosphere Reserve One(Dehang Dibang Biosphere Reserve)
Posted on: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 04:24:25 +0000
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