Covering about 13,000 square kilometres, Ruaha National Park is the largest national park in Tanzania. The park has a wide-ranging ecosystem including Rungwa Game Reserve, Usangu Game Reserve, and several other protected areas.
The name Ruaha is originated from the great Ruaha River, which flows along its South-Eastern border and is most popular for the game–viewing oppertunity.
Ruaha is home to a high concentration of elephants as compared to other parks in East Africa. It is also a place where a diverse number of animals are spotted like lions, leopards, cheetah, giraffes, zebras, elands, impala, bat-eared foxes and Jackals. Ruaha is a habitat for endangered wild dogs too.
Regardless of large animals, the park has also been identified as having a number of reptiles and amphibians such as crocodiles, poisonous and non-poisonous snakes, monitor lizards, agama lizards and frogs.
Recorded with over 1650 plant species, the park is characterized by a semi-arid type of vegetation, baobab trees, Acacia and other species.
