HERITAGE RECORD · 063

Virunga National Park

维龙加国家公园

The official record, selection criteria and sourced cultural context.

World Heritage record

Virunga National Park (covering an area of 790,000 ha) comprises an outstanding diversity of habitats, ranging from swamps and steppes to the snowfields of Rwenzori at an altitude of over 5,000 m, and from lava plains to the savannahs on the slopes of volcanoes. Mountain gorillas are found in the park, some 20,000 hippopotamuses live in the rivers and birds from Siberia spend the winter there.

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Wikidata reference

QIDQ223589 ↗

Inception1925

Area7900 ha

Administrative areaQ130625 · Q831370

CreatorQ55008046

WikipediaVirunga National Park ↗

Chinese Wikipedia維龍加國家公園 ↗

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Selection criteria

This property was inscribed under the following World Heritage Convention criteria.

(vii)Superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance.

(viii)An outstanding record of Earth’s history, geological processes or significant landforms.

(x)The most important natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity.

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