Vegetation in Simlipal National Park
India Wildlife Tours offers you fun wildlife tour packages that take you to a complete ecosystem that exists on the hills of Simlipal in Orissa, India. The Simlipal National Park is spread over an area of 2,750 square kilometers that is mostly covered with tropical moist deciduous vegetation, besides a generous growth of tropical semi-evergreen forests and dry deciduous hill vegetation.
The hilly areas are covered with dense Sal forests and the plains are clothed with stretches of grasslands and Savannah grass. There are quite a few forest stretches that can very well be described as being covered with mixed vegetation.
The Santhal settlements located close to the Simlipal forests do their bit to conserve the natural vegetation in the area. Simlipal is also a biosphere reserve and botanists have listed at least 501 vegetation species that belong to 102 families.
Besides the aforementioned the vegetation at the Simlipal National Park in Orissa, India also consists of exotic orchids, aromatic and medicinal plants that have a variety of uses. In fact Simlipal is known to have more then 82 varieties of orchids growing wild all over the national park. The vegetation at the Simlipal National Park gets its water and nourishment from the 12 Hill Rivers that flow through the entire national park. Some of these rivers form spectacular waterfalls. Among the 12 rivers the most prominent are the Palpala Bandan, Deo Burhabalanga and Kahairi. The beautiful 400-metre drop Barehipani waterfalls are simply spectacular.
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