Sulawesi Island

Sulawesi is Indonesia's fourth largest island after Papua, Kalimantan and Sumatra with a land area of 174,600 square kilometers. The unique shape resembles a spider roses or large letter K which stretched from north to south and three peninsula that stretches to the northeast, east and southeast. The island is bounded by the Makassar Strait in the west and separated from Borneo and the Maluku Islands are separated also from the Molucca Sea.

Government in Sulawesi is divided into six provinces, namely North Sulawesi, Central Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi, West Sulawesi, and Gorontalo. Central Sulawesi is the largest province by land area is 68.033 square kilometers and a sea area reached 189.480 square kilometers which includes the peninsula of the eastern and northern part of the peninsula and the Gulf Islands Togean Tomini and the islands of the Banggai Islands in the Gulf of Tolo. Most of the land in the province is mountainous (42.80% is above the altitude of 500 meters above sea level) and Katopasa is the highest mountain with an altitude of 2835 meters above sea level.

Sulawesi is part of Wallacea, meaning that it has a mix of both Asian and Australasian species. There are 8 national parks on the island, of which 4 are mostly marine. The parks with the largest terrestrial area are Bogani Nani Wartabone with 2,871 km² and Lore Lindu National Park with 2,290 km². Bunaken National Park which protects a rich coral ecosystem has been proposed as an UNESCO World Heritage Site. [wikipedia]