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The Wildlife Sanctuary Thung Yai Naresuan ((タイ語:เขตรักษาพันธุ์สัตว์ป่าทุ่งใหญ่นเรศวร)) is a protected area in Thailand in the northern part of Kanchanaburi province and the southern part of Tak province. It was created as a Wildlife Sanctuary on April 24, 1974 and was declared a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO in 1991 together with the adjoining Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary.〔http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/591/〕 ==Location and Topography== The Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary is located at the western national border of Thailand to Burma, in the southern area of the Dawna Range. It extends northeast of the Three Pagodas Pass from Sangkhla Buri District (Kanchanaburi Province) into Umphang District (Tak Province). The Wildlife Sanctuary stretches over an area of about 369.000 ha and is the largest protected area in Thailand.〔http://www.wdpa.org/siteSheet.aspx?sitecode=1405#/area/1405〕 Together with the adjoining Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary (Thai: ) it constitutes the core area of the Western Forest Complex which represents the largest conglomeration of contiguous protected areas in Mainland Southeast Asia.〔http://www.westernforest.org/en/Default.htm〕 The area is predominantly mountainous and composed of various limestones interspersed with massive intrusions of granite and smaller outcrops of quartzite and schist. Altitudes range from about 180 metres above sea level at the Vajiralongkorn Reservoir in the south of the sanctuary to its highest peak Khao Tai Pa reaching 1,811 metres. Major rivers are the Mae Klong and the Mae Chan which originate in the Umphang Wildlife Sanctuary and conjoin in Thung Yai into the Upper Khwae Yai which feeds the Si Nakharin Reservoir. Various smaller rivers in the south and southwest feed the Vajiralongkorn Reservoir while in the northwestern part of the sanctuary the Mae Kasat and the Mae Suriya flow into Burma.〔Seub/Stewart-Cox 1990:4.〕 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「Thungyai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuary」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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