Boukornine National Park, Tunisia
Boukornine National Park of Tunisia was set up on February 12, 1987. It is the located in the northern part of the country and encompasses an area of 1,939 hectares. The capital city of the country, Tunis, is just 15 km away from the park while the town of Hammam-Lif is its nearest settlement.
A 576 m tall mountain named Jebel Boukornine is also located here. The slopes of the mountain are covered with Aleppo pine and cedar. Wildflowers like the Persian cyclamen bloom in the national park. The mountain gazelle and the smallest mammal in the world, the Etruscan shrew, also occur here.
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