GASHAKA-GUMTI NATIONAL PARK
GASHAKA-GUMTI NATIONAL PARK. This is a vast land of
spectacular wilderness (6000 sq km) in the south east corner of Taraba state
adjoining the Mambilla plateau mostly mountainous from 457 to 2407 meters. It
contains Nigeria's highest mountain. It is the most ecologically diverse
conservative area in the country and contains swaths of guinea savannah,
gallery forest, moist forest, mountain forest and grass land. Many rivers flow through
the park including the Taraba a major tributary of the river Benue. A wide variety
of animals can be found there including buffalo antelope chimpanzee colobus
monkeys hippopotamus hyena giant forest hog lion leopard. The park is a bird
watcher paradise, also fishing in the river kam.
