India Facts - Nature

Mountains

Himalaya 2400 km long between 240 and 320 km wide
Kanchenjunga (8534 m)
Aravalli Ranges (Rajasthan)
Mount Abu (1219 m)
Eastern Ghats (Height ca 610m)
Western Ghats (Height 915- 1220m, some Mountains upto 2440m)

Rivers

Ganges 2.510 km

Brahmaputra 2.900 km

Forests

770.100 km² abaout 23,4% of total area

Deserts

200.000 km² about 1/3 cultivable

Flora

45.000 different Species

15.000 Vascula Flora about 35% endemic

Conservation areas

80 national parks

441 wildlife sanctuaries

about 23 Tigerreserves (Project Tiger)

about 40.000 Tiger population end of 19. Century

about 2.000 in the 70's

about 6.000 today

consists 60 % of the worldwide tigerpopulation

Fauna

65.000 different Species:
Fishes: 2.500
Amphibians: 150
Reptiles: 350
Birds: 2.100
Mammals: 350

Special: Tiger, Asian Lion, Elephant, Four horn antilope (Choushinha), One horn Rhinoceros, three different Leopard (snow Leopard), black an brown Bear, Yak, Tapir, Moschusdeer, Sibirischer Kranich, Indian Wild ass, Indian Bison (Gaur), Indian Buffalol (Nigail), largest Red wild population of the world (8 different Species), Crocodiles, among it the Gangesgharial, found only in India

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