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Tat Mok National Park ( th, อุทยานแห่งชาติตาดหมอก, ) is a national park in
The national park is abutting
And reptiles:
Phetchabun Province
Phetchabun ( th, เพชรบูรณ์, ) is one of Thailand's seventy-six provinces (''changwat'') lies in lower northern Thailand. Neighbouring provinces are (from north clockwise) Loei, Khon Kaen, Chaiyaphum, Lopburi, Nakhon Sawan, P ...
, Thailand
Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is b ...
. Established on 30 October 1998, it is the 87th national park in Thailand. Both park and the waterfall are named after Tat Mok Mountains.
Geography
Tat Mok National Park is about east ofPhetchabun
Phetchabun is a town (''thesaban mueang'') in Thailand, capital of Phetchabun Province. It covers the ''tambon'' Nai Mueang of the Phetchabun District, along the Pa Sak River. As of 2005, it had a population of 23,823. Phetchabun lies north o ...
in Mueang
Mueang ( th, เมือง ''mɯ̄ang'', ), Muang ( lo, ເມືອງ ''mɯ́ang'', ; Tai Nuea: ᥛᥫᥒᥰ ''muang''), Mong ( shn, ''mə́ŋ'', ), Meng () or Mường (Vietnamese), were pre-modern semi-independent city-states or principal ...
District. The park's area covers 181,250 rai ~ .
The national park is abutting
Phu Pha Daeng Wildlife Sanctuary
Phu Pha Daeng Wildlife Sanctuary ( th, เขตรักษาพันธุ์สัตว์ป่าภูผาแดง;) is a Wildlife sanctuary (Thailand), wildlife sanctuary in Lom Sak District of Thailand's Phetchabun Province. The san ...
and connected by Nam Nao National Park to the north, abutting Phu Khiao Wildlife Sanctuary to the east and abutting Tabo-Huai Yai Wildlife Sanctuary to the south. The park's streams and waterfalls provide the main source for the Pa Sak and Chi
Chi or CHI may refer to:
Greek
*Chi (letter), the Greek letter (uppercase Χ, lowercase χ);
Chinese
*Chi (length), ''Chi'' (length) (尺), a traditional unit of length, about ⅓ meter
*Chi (mythology) (螭), a dragon
*Chi (surname) (池, pin ...
Rivers.
History
In mid-1991 a survey was set up, a beautiful waterfall was found suitable for renovation into a tourist attraction. Later in 1995, the Royal Forest Department requested additional information so that the Tabo forest and Huai Yai forest area could become a national park. Tat Mok was declared the 87th National Park on 30 October 1998. Since 2002 this national park has been managed by Protected Areas Regional Office 11 (Phitsanulok)Flora
The park features forest types, including mixeddeciduous
In the fields of horticulture and Botany, the term ''deciduous'' () means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, ...
, deciduous dipterocarp
Dipterocarpaceae is a family of 16 genera and about 695 known species of mainly tropical lowland rainforest trees. The family name, from the type genus ''Dipterocarpus'', is derived from Greek (''di'' = two, ''pteron'' = wing and ''karpos'' = f ...
, dry evergreen
In botany, an evergreen is a plant which has foliage that remains green and functional through more than one growing season. This also pertains to plants that retain their foliage only in warm climates, and contrasts with deciduous plants, whic ...
and hill evergreen forest.
Plants include:
Fauna
In the park are the following mammals: The park has approximately 170 species of birds, of which some 110 species ofpasserine
A passerine () is any bird of the order Passeriformes (; from Latin 'sparrow' and '-shaped'), which includes more than half of all bird species. Sometimes known as perching birds, passerines are distinguished from other orders of birds by th ...
from 33 families, represented by one species:
and some 60 species of non-passerine from 19 families, represented by one species:
And reptiles:
Places
* Namtok Tat Mok - a one level high waterfall. * Namtok Song Nang - a 12-tiered waterfall.Location
See also
*List of national parks in Thailand
National parks in Thailand ( th, อุทยานแห่งชาติ) are defined as ''an area that contains natural resources of ecological importance or unique beauty, or flora and fauna of special importance''. Thailand's protected ar ...
* List of Protected Areas Regional Offices of Thailand Since the beginning one hundred years ago, forest management in Thailand has undergone many changes, in form of reclassifications, name changes and management changes. All this has resulted in a division of 16 regions with 5 branches in 2002. Five r ...
References
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