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North
Celebes covers on area 15.272,16 km2, and that
comprises several island also between Manado
Tua Island, Bunaken Island, Mantehage Island,
Talise Island, Bangka Island, Lembeh Island,
Siau Island, Tagulandang, Karakelang
Island, Ruang Island, Biaro Island, Sangihe
Island, Salibabu Island, with Kabaruan Island.
And North Celebes have the coast line 1.837
km. and North Celebes also have three municipality,
Manado, Tomohon and Bitung, with the six regency:
Central Minahasa, North Minahasa, South Minahasa,
Bolaang Mongondow, Sangihe and Talaud.
Climate
North Celebes, is tropical climate,
with the temperature is 32'C on the day light
and 24oC on the night time and some times raining,
amount of rainfall at that place more heavy
between December to March and August to September
is Summer for the year.
Wildlife
North Celebes is important part from the Wallace
line at the east side of Indonesia since 150
years ago. Wallace line is the fantasy line
from the England scientist
He is Alfred Russel Wallace about the spreader
of the animals. This line has a limit for the
spreader of animals on west side of Indonesia
and east side of Indonesia. lots of endemic
animals Celebes live on the conservation. Area
in this province the classified mammals is :
Black monkey \ Yaki (macaca nigra), Kus–Kus,
Bear (Ailurupos ursinus), Tangkasi Tarsius spectrum),
Civet Celebes (Macrogalidia muschenbroekii),
Babi Rusa (Babby russa – Babby rousa),
Anoa Pamah (Bubalus depressicornis) Mount Anoa
(Bubalus guarlesi), Kalong Talud (Acredon Humilis)
and Duyung (dugongs)
Bird
North Celebes is the places for living from
89 species (86% from the total 103 endemic bird
on Celebes island and also of the shore islands
and there is 13 species and several is endemic
Birds khas North Celebes and those are : Maleo
(Macrocephalon maleo), Rangkong (Rhyticeros
cassidix), Burung hantu gunung (Ninox ios ),
burung hantu punggok oker (Ninox ochracea),
Sikatan Matinan (Cyornis sanfordi), Sampiri
(Eos histrio), burung Niu (Eutrichomyias rowleyi),
kakatua jambul kuning (cacatua sulphurea), Pergam
hijau (ducula aenea), Pergam putih (ducula luctuosa),
Jalak moloneti (Scissirostrum dubium), Burung
pendeta (Streptocitta albicollis, raja perling
Celebes (Basilornis celebensis), Serindit Celebes
(loriculus stigmatus), Kadalan Celebes (Rhampococyx
calorhnychus), Burung udang merah kerdil (Ceyx
fallax), Elang alap Celebes (Accipiter griseiceps)
Vegetasi
The North Celebes forest can described seems
like the tropical ever green forest including
many kind type of vegetation like swamp and
mangrove forest, beach forest, plain forest
or low land forest, down the hill forest, and
mountain forest.
North Celebes forest, had lots of sign by special
kind of three like Moraceae, Annonaceae, and
eurphorbiaceae.
Concervation
Area
As the important things for the conservation
area to protect many kind of biodiversity, North
Celebes has eight conservation areas to protect
the wild animals firstly for the animal that
easy to be extinction because of the people
haunting or any kind of treatment. has eight
conservation areas and those are; Tangkoko rainforest,
(dua saudara) Lokon Rainforest, Mount Ambang
Rainforest, Manembonembo conservation area,
North Karangkelang Rainforest, South Karangkelang
Rainforest, Bunaken Sea Garden, Bogani Nani
Wartabone National Park. |