kishtwar National Park, Hemis National Park UPSC PSC MIND MAP

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▪️kishtwar National Park

🔸Kishtwar National Park is a national park located

the Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir, India.

🔸It is bounded to the north by Rinnay river south by

Kibar Nala catchment, east by main divide of Great

Himalaya and west by Marwa river.

🔸Home to Himalayan Snowcock and Brown bear

🔸The flora mainly comprises coniferous, alpine, meadows and scrub forests

#Hemis_National_Park 

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▪️ Hemis National Park

▪️Hemis National Park (or Hemis High Altitude National Park) is a high

altitude national park in the eastern Ladakh Union Territory of the India

▪️ Globally famous for its snow legpards.

▪️Well known for Snow leopards, Mountain weasel, Himalayan Lavender

 

▪️IUCN category II NP

  

▪️Park Houses 400 year old Hemis Monastery.

▪️The park is bounded on thenorth by the banks of the indus River, and

includes the catchmentsof Markha river

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