Bunaken National Park, Amazing Coral Reef

Location of Bunaken National Park

• Minahasa Regency,  Manado, North Sulawesi Province
• Geographic location : 1° 35 '- 1 ° 49' N, 124 ° 39 '- 124 ° 35' E
• Area 89,065 hectares
• Altitude 000-800 meter above sea level
• Temperature 26 - 31 degre C
• Rainfall 2500-3500 mm/year

How to reach Bunaken National Park 

• Bunaken National Park can be reacched via the port of Manado, Marina Nusantara diving Center ( NDC) in the Distric of Molas and Marina Blue Banter. From Manado harbor by boat to the island Montehage +- 50 minutes and +- 60 minutes Nain Island. From Blue Banter Marina with a yach that is available to the tourist area on the island of Bunaken are within 10-15 minutes, while from the port od NDC the dive sites at Bunaken island by speed boat to within + 20 minutes.

The Best Visiting Season to Bunaken National Park 

• May t August each year.

Bunaken National Park, Amazing Coral Reef

Bunaken National Park Amazing Coral Reef

Bunaken National Park is very representative of Indonesian tropical water ecosystems consisting of mangrove ecosystems, seagrass beds, coral reefs, and land / coastal ecosystems.

In the northern part consists of the island of Bunaken, Manado Tua island, the island Montehage, Siladen island, the island Nain, Nain Small island, and some coastal areas of Cape Pisok. While in the Southern Cape coast includes some of Palm.

Potential land islands national park is rich in species of palm, sago, woka, silar and coconut. Types of animals living in terrestrial and coastal including Sulawesi black macaques ( Macaca nigra nigra ), deer ( Cervus timorensis Russa ), and possum ( Ailurops ursinus ursinus ).

Plant species in the mangroves of Bunaken National Park which is Rhizophora sp., Sonneratia sp., Lumnitzera sp ., and Bruguiera sp . This forest is rich with various kinds of crab, shrimp, mollusks and various types of sea birds such as seagulls, herons, sea virgin, and cangak sea.

This type of algae found in this national park include the type of Caulerpa sp., Halimeda sp., and Padina sp . Seagrass beds are dominated mainly on the island Montehage, and Nain island of Thalassia hemprichii, Enhallus acoroides, and Thalassodendron ciliatum.

91 species Fish on Bunaken National Park

Recorded 13 genera of corals living in waters of Bunaken National Park, dominated by fringing reefs and coral reef barrier.The most interesting is the vertical cliffs as far as 25-50 meters.

There are about 91 species of fish in the waters of Bunaken National Park, including fish gusumi horse (Hippocampus horse ), white oci (Seriola rivoliana ), yellow tail lolosi (Lutjanus kasmira ), goropa ( Ephinephelus spilotoceps and Pseudanthias hypselosoma ), ila trunk ( Scolopsis bilineatus ) , and others.

Types of mollusks like giant clams ( Tridacna gigas ), head of the goat (Cassis cornuta) , hollow nautilus (Nautilus pompillius ), and tunikates / ascidians.