Nishi-Chugoku Sanchi Quasi-National Park

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Nishi-Chugoku Sanchi Quasi-National Park (西中国山地国定公園, Nishi-Chūgoku Sanchi Kokutei Kōen^?) is one of the Quasi-National Parks in Japan.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Mountains 3 Ravines 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Overview

Nishi-Chugoku Sanchi Quasi-National Park is the west part of Chūgoku Sanchi (中国山地, Chūgoku Sanchi^?) and located around Shimane Prefecture, Hiroshima Prefecture and Yamaguchi Prefecture.

The park has the area of 285 km² and it was designated as the Quasi-National Park in 1969.

There are a lot of beautiful mountain and ravines include Mount Osorakan (恐羅漢山, Osorakan-zan^?), Mount Kanmuri (冠山, Kanmuri-yama^?), Sandan ravine (三段峡, Sandan-kyō^?), Hikimi ravine (匹見峡, Hikimi-kyō^?) and Jakuchi ravine (寂地峡, Jakuchi-kyō^?).

There are virgin forests of Japanese beechs, Japanese oaks and Japanese horse chestnut.

There are asiatic black bears, Japanese macaques, mountain hawk eagle and Japanese giant salamanders.

[edit] Mountains

• Mount Osorakan (1,346m)
• Mount Kanmuri (1,339m)
• Mount Jakuchi (1,337m)
• Mount Garyu (1,223m)
• Mount Asa (1,218m)

[edit] Ravines

• Sandan-kyō
• Hikimi-kyō
• Fukatani-kyō
• Jakuchi-kyō
• Souzu-kyō

[edit] See also

• List of national parks of Japan

[edit] External links

• Ministry of the Environment