WAKATOBI ISLAND

Location of Wakatobi Island

 

          one district in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. The capital of the district is located in Wangi Wangi, established by the Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 29 of 2003, dated December 18, 2003. Its area is 823 km ² and has a population of 94 846 in 2011 inhabitants. Wakatobi is also the name of a national park set in 1996, with a total area of ​​1.39 million hectares, of the biodiversity of the sea, the scale and the conditions of coral which occupies one of the highest priority position of marine conservation in Indonesia.

Flora and Fauna

Based on data from the Operational Wallacea (Opwal), Wakatobi has 750 of the 850 coral species in the world. More of the collection in the Caribbean that only 650 species. No wonder, when the beauty of the underwater world in Wakatobi will be commensurate with views over the sea. Not to mention the wealth of the island budaya.Tiap have different characteristics.
In this park there is a panoramic view of the beauty of the underwater world that has 25 pieces of coral reefs. Coral reefs can be found around 112 types of 13 families located on 25 points along 600 km of coastline. The types of coral including:

• Acropora formosa
• Hyacinthus
• Psammocora profundasafla
• Pavona cactus
• Leptoseris yabei
• Fungia molucensis
• Lobophyllia robusta
• Merulina ampliata
• Platygyra versifora
• Euphyllia glabrescens
• Tubastraea frondes
• Stylophora pistillata
• Sarcophyton throchelliophorum
• Sinularia spp.

 

In addition to the beauty that is presented by the diverse coral reef, the park also has a variety of fish species. Fish species richness of this national park owned as many as 93 species of fish consumption and trade of ornamental fish include:

• Argus bintik (Cephalopholus argus)
• Takhasang (Naso unicornis)
• Pogo-pogo (Balistoides viridescens)
• Ikan Napoleon (Cheilinus undulatus)
• Ikan merah (Lutjanus biguttatus)
• Baronang (Siganus guttatus)
• Amphiprion melanopus
• Chaetodon specullum
• Chelmon rostratus
• Heniochus acuminatus
• Lutjanus monostigma
• Caesio caerularea

Wakatobi Island Beauty