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Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary is a wildlife sanctuary and estuary situated in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is the second largest surviving stretch of mangrove forests in India with 24 mangrove tree species, and more than 120 bird species. It is home for the critically endangered white-backed vulture, and long billed vulture.〔 ==Geography== Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary is 18 km from the port city Kakinada, on the Kakinada-Yanam state highway, nestling on the deltaic branches of Gouthami and Godavari Rivers at Kakinada Bay.〔 It is located between 16°-30' to 17°-00' N latitudes and 82°-14' to 82°-23'E longitudes.〔 The sanctuary is a part of the Godavari estuary and has extensive mangrove and dry deciduous tropical forest.〔 About half of the area is the backwater, which include a sand pit of 18 km stretch. The rivers Coringa and Gaderu and their deltic branches intersect the region, along with other water channels. This forms about 335.7 square km of marsh vegetation.〔 The average temperature of the region is 17 °C to 40 °C.〔 Average Rainfall is greater than 1,000 mm.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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