Batéké Plateau National Park
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Batéké Plateau National Park is a national park
in the Bateke Plateau
, southeastern Gabon
covering 2034 square kilometre. Due to its purported universal cultural and natural significance, it was added onto the UNESCO
World Heritage Tentative List on October 20th, 2005.
National park
A national park is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently A national park is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or...
in the Bateke Plateau
Batéké Plateau
The Batéké plateaux are located around the border between the Republic of Congo and Gabon. In the latter, they are found in the Haut-Ogooué Province, while the Plateaux Province of Congo is named after them....
, southeastern Gabon
Gabon
Gabon , officially the Gabonese Republic is a state in west central Africa sharing borders with Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, and with the Republic of the Congo curving around the east and south. The Gulf of Guinea, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean is to the west...
covering 2034 square kilometre. Due to its purported universal cultural and natural significance, it was added onto the UNESCO
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...
World Heritage Tentative List on October 20th, 2005.