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Kutai Kartanegara

Kutai Kartanegara Regency
Kabupaten Kutai Kartanegara
Official seal of Kutai Kartanegara Regency
Seal
Motto: 'Bena Benua Etam' (Kutai language: 'Care About Our Region')
Lokasi Kalimantan Timur Kabupaten Kutai Kartanegara.svg
Kutai Kartanegara Regency is located in Indonesia
Kutai Kartanegara Regency
Kutai Kartanegara Regency
Coordinates: 1°18′40″S 116°31′36″E / 1.31111°S 116.52667°E / -1.31111; 116.52667Coordinates: 1°18′40″S 116°31′36″E / 1.31111°S 116.52667°E / -1.31111; 116.52667
Country Indonesia
Province East Kalimantan
Regency Kutai Kartanegara
Districts 18
Government
 • Regent Rita Widyasari
 • Vice Regent Edi Damansyah
Area
 • Total 27,263.10 km2 (10,526.34 sq mi)
Population (2010 Census)
 • Total 626,286
 • Density 23/km2 (59/sq mi)
Time zone WITA (UTC+8)
Website www.kutaikartanegarakab.go.id

Kutai Kartanegara Regency (abbreviated as Kukar) is a regency of East Kalimantan province, Indonesia. It has an area of 27,263.10 km² (land) and water area of 4,097 km². The population of the regency was 626,286 at the 2010 Census. Tenggarong is the capital of the regency.

Kutai Kartanegara Regency is divided into 18 districts (kecamatan), tabulated below with their 2010 Census population:

Bukit Bangkirai (Bangkirai Hill) is an 1,500-hectare natural tropical located about 58 kilometers (around 45 minutes by car) from the city of Balikpapan. Plants of the Dipterocarpaceae family dominate in the area, especially Bangkirai trees (Shorea laevis of the Shorea genus) growing to 40–50 meters in height. There are over 120 bird species as well as gibbons (Müller's Bornean gibbon), macaque monkeys (Southern pig-tailed macaques, Crab-eating macaques), Maroon leaf monkeys, Banded pigs, and Banggai crows. Black Orchids (Coelogyne pandurata), among 45 kinds of orchids, are endemic to Bukit Bangkirai.

To visit the forest, visitors can walk along a 64-meter canopy bridge which connects five big Bangkirai trees 30 meters above the ground.

East Kalimantan province has developed an 18-hectare plot of land for mangrove information and research center in Sepatin village, in Anggana district, as Bali has done. It will functioning as a research, exhibition, information, breeding as well as education center on mangroves, especially in the Mahakam Delta.


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