• It is nestled between the Patkai range and Dapha bum range of Mishmi Hills.
• Patkai hills to the south and south-east and the Himalaya in the north.
• The area lies close to the Indo-Myanmar-China trijunction.
• It is famous for being the only park in India to have four big cat species, like leopard, tiger, clouded leopard and snow leopard.
• No other national park in the world has a wider altitudinal variation than the Namdapha national park that rises from 200m to 4,500m in the snow-capped mountain.
• This variation has given rise to the growth Of diverse habitats of flora and fauna.
• The habitat changes with increasing altitude from Tropical moist forests to montane forests, temperate forests and at the higher elevations, to Alpine meadows and perennial snow.
• The higher elevations remain snowbound for most part of the year.
• The park has extensive bamboo forests.
• Namdapha lies along the turbulent Noa-Dihing River at the international border between India and Myanmar.
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