Bale Mountains National Park
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How it came to be
Bale Mountains National Park covers 215,000 ha of the highlands of south-eastern Ethiopia. It holds Africa's largest area of afro-alpine habitat above 3,000 m, with glacial lakes, wetlands and moorland. Its highest point, Tullu Dimtu, is the second-highest peak in Ethiopia.
From the Sanetti Plateau at its centre the southern slopes fall into the Harenna Forest, the second-largest moist tropical forest in Ethiopia, across a range of almost 2,900 m in altitude. The forest is a genetic reservoir for wild coffee, and five major rivers rising in the park supply water to millions of people.
Some 1,660 flowering plant species have been recorded, 31 of them found only in these mountains. The park holds the most important remaining population of the Ethiopian wolf and about two-thirds of all mountain nyala. Its boundaries were legally demarcated in 2014, and it was inscribed in 2023.
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