India Facts - Nature
Mountains
- Himalaya 2400 km long between 240 and 320 km wide
Kanchenjunga (8534 m) - Aravalli Ranges (Rajasthan)
Mount Abu (1219 m) - Eastern Ghats (Height ca 610m)
- Western Ghats (Height 915- 1220m, some Mountains upto 2440m)
Rivers
- Ganges 2.510 km
- Brahmaputra 2.900 km
Forests
- 770.100 km˛ abaout 23,4% of total area
Deserts
- 200.000 km˛ about 1/3 cultivable
Flora
- 45.000 different Species
- 15.000 Vascula Flora about 35% endemic
Conservation areas
- 80 national parks
- 441 wildlife sanctuaries
- about 23 Tigerreserves (Project Tiger)
- about 40.000 Tiger population end of 19. Century
- about 2.000 in the 70's
- about 6.000 today
- consists 60 % of the worldwide tigerpopulation
Fauna
- 65.000 different Species:
Fishes: 2.500
Amphibians: 150
Reptiles: 350
Birds: 2.100
Mammals: 350 - Special: Tiger, Asian Lion, Elephant, Four horn antilope (Choushinha), One horn Rhinoceros, three different Leopard (snow Leopard), black an brown Bear, Yak, Tapir, Moschusdeer, Sibirischer Kranich, Indian Wild ass, Indian Bison (Gaur), Indian Buffalol (Nigail), largest Red wild population of the world (8 different Species), Crocodiles, among it the Gangesgharial, found only in India