Bafing National Park

Bafing National Park

Bafing National Park, or Bafing Makana Park Biodiversity Reserve, is a national park located in the Kayes Region of western Mali. The park is a biodiversity reserve with smaller bio-sanctuaries, the Kouroufing and Wongo reserves and the chimpanzee sanctuary.
The park is characterized by its terrain consisting of plateaus, alluvial plains and lowlands, which serve as a drainage basin for the Senegal River, particularly its main tributary, the Bafing River. The vegetation in the park consists mainly of different types of dry savannas, open forests, and other plants that characterize the Sudanian savanna.
The park also includes large numbers of animals, including birds and mammals, where lions, leopards, otters, buffaloes and antelopes are present, as well as many monkeys, especially chimpanzees. Hippos and crocodiles also frequent the banks of the Bafing River.

Bafing National Park was submitted in 2016 to the UNESCO Tentative List in Mali.

Area Map

UNESCO

Tentative List

2016

Bafing National Park

Date of Submission

2016