Teluk Cendrawasih, Papua

Teluk Cendrawasih or Cendrawasih Bay National Park in Papua includes Indonesia’s largest marine national park and is one of the best dive-sites in the archipelago. Comprising land and coastal areas, islands, coral reefs and seas, the park covers a total area of 1,453,500 hectares.

The Cendrawasih Bay Park combines coral reef ecosystems with mangrove, islands and terrestrial tropical forest ecosystems. Here are colonies of black coral, blue coral and soft coral. The Park is famous for the 209 fish species that make this Park their habitat, among which are the butterfly fish, the damselfish and parrotfish, while mollusks found here include the trumpet triton, the great clam and the cone shell.