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Subtropical evergreen laurel forest of Yanbaru Yambaru National Park ( やんばる国立公園 , Yanbaru Kokuritsu Kōen ) is a national park in Okinawa Prefecture , Japan . Established in 2016, it is located in and around the forested region of Yambaru at the northern end of Okinawa Island .
Yambaru (山原) is the Okinawan and Kunigami name given to the forested northern part of Okinawa Island in Japan. Spanning the northern villages of Higashi , Kunigami , and Ōgimi , Yambaru contains some of the last large surviving tracts of subtropical rainforest in Asia, with many endemic species of flora and fauna.
The largest is Okinawa Island. The highest point is Mount Miyanoura on Yakushima Island at 1,936 metres (6,352 ft). The ecoregion is the northernmost in the Indomalayan realm, and shares many plants with subtropical and tropical Asia. [1]
Monument Municipality Comments Image Coordinates Type Ref. Ada Planchonella obovata Forest Reserve 安田のアカテツ保安林 Ada no akatetsu hoan-rin: Kunigami: for all refs see
Ishigaki (石垣市, Ishigaki-shi, Yaeyama: Isïgaksï, Ishanagzï) is a city in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It includes Ishigaki island and the Senkaku Islands territory. [ 1 ] The city is the political, cultural, and economic center of the Yaeyama Islands . [ 2 ]
Camp Gonsalves is a U.S. Marine Corps jungle warfare training area located in northern Okinawa, Japan, across the villages of Kunigami and Higashi.Established in 1958, it is the largest U.S. training facility in Okinawa.
Aokigahara (青木ヶ原, 'Blue Tree Meadow'), also known as the Sea of Trees (樹海, Jukai), is a forest on the northwestern flank of Mount Fuji on the island of Honshu in Japan, thriving on 30 square kilometres (12 sq mi) of hardened lava laid down by the last major eruption of Mount Fuji in 864 CE. [1]
Okinawa's first ecotourism association was established in Higashi in 1998, with various associations eventually combined in 2005 to become the Higashi Village Tourism Promotion Association. One major project was the building of a ten-hectare mangrove forest called Hirugi Park, built around Gesashi Bay, the largest such forest on the island.