Monday, July 28, 2008

Cibodas National Park

Location: Cianjur


Established in the date 1 on April 1 1852 by Johannes Ellias Teijsmann, a curator of the Bogor Botanic Garden at that time, by the name of Bergtuin te Tjibodas (the Pegunungan Cibodas Garden). Initially was meant as the place of foreign acclimatisation of kinds of origin plants that had the important value and high economics, one of them was the Quinine Tree (Cinchona calisaya). Afterwards developed by part of the Bogor Botanic Garden by the name of the Branch of the Kebun Raya Cibodas Hall.

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