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The nation's natural resources have made it a comparatively prosperous nation in the African economy. The southeastern region of Ivory Coast is marked by coastal inland lagoons that start at the Ghanaian border and stretch 300 km (190 mi) along the eastern half of the coast.
Geologic map of Ivory Coast, in which the "Eburnean, geosynclinal facies" is equivalent to the Birimian. [1]The geology of Ivory Coast is almost entirely extremely ancient metamorphic and igneous crystalline basement rock between 2.1 and more than 3.5 billion years old, comprising part of the stable continental crust of the West African Craton. [2]
A volcanic plug in Man. The environment of Côte d'Ivoire has more than 1,200 animal species—223 mammal, 702 bird, 125 reptile, 38 amphibian, and 111 fish species—and 4,700 plant species.
The following is a list of ecoregions in Ivory Coast, according to the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF). Terrestrial ecoregions. By major habitat type:
The wildlife of Ivory Coast consists of the flora and fauna of this nation in West Africa. The country has a long Atlantic coastline on the Gulf of Guinea and a range of habitat types. Once covered in tropical rainforest, much of this habitat has been cleared, the remaining terrain being gallery forests and savanna with scattered groups of ...
Banco National Park is a national park in Ivory Coast, located along Highway North in the district of Attécoubé . It is one of the only dense, primary tropical forest located in the heart of an urban area, other than the Tijuca National Park in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. [1] It has an area of 34.74 square kilometres (13.41 sq mi). [2]
Ivory Coast's Unesco delegate, Ramata Ly-Bakayoko, told the 19th session on safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in Paraguay, that attiéké was "deeply rooted in the daily lives of its ...
The Comoé National Park (French: Parc national de la Comoé) is a Biosphere Reserve and UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Zanzan and Savanes districts of north-eastern Ivory Coast. It is the largest protected area in West Africa , with an area of 11,500 square kilometers (4,400 sq mi), and ranges from the humid Guinea savanna to the dry ...