Manusela National Park

Manusela National Park
IUCN category II (national park)
Manusela NP Location of Manusela NP in Maluku
Location	Maluku, Indonesia
Nearest city	Ambon
Coordinates	3°3′S 129°26′E / 3.050°S 129.433°E / -3.050; 129.433Coordinates: 3°3′S 129°26′E / 3.050°S 129.433°E / -3.050; 129.433
Area	1,890 km2
Established	1997
Governing body	Ministry of Forestry

Manusela National Park is located on Seram island, in the Maluku archipelago of Indonesia. It is made up of coastal forest, swamp forest, lowland and montane rainforest ecosystem types. Mount Binaiya at 3,027 meters, is the highest of the park's six mountains. Seram is remarkable for its high degree of localised bird endemism. The park also includes important karst landscapes. On Mount Hatu Saka, near the coast of Saleman-Sawai, it is the Goa HatuSaka, currently the deepest cave of the whole Indonesia.

Among the plants that grow in this park are Avicennia, Dryobalanops and Pandanus species, Alstonia scholaris, Terminalia catappa, Shorea selanica, Octomeles sumatrana, Bruguiera sexangula, Melaleuca leucadendra, Pometia pinnata, Rhizophora acuminata and various species of orchid.

Of the 118 species of bird on the island, 15 are endemic, including the eclectus parrot, purple-naped lory, salmon-crested cockatoo, lazuli kingfisher, sacred kingfisher, grey-necked friarbird, Moluccan king parrot,bicoloured white-eye, black-chinned monarch, and Seram masked owl.