Silent Valley National Park (89.52 km²) is located in the Nilgiri Hills, Palakkad district, Kerala, in South India. The park is one of the last undisturbed tracts of South Western Ghats montane rain forests and tropical moist evergreen forest in India. The park is contiguous with the proposed Karimpuzha National Park (225 km²) to the north and Mukurthi National Park (78.46 km²) to the north-east. It is the core of the Nilgiri International Biosphere Reserve (1,455.4 km²) and is part of The Western Ghats World Heritage Site, Nilgiri Sub-Cluster (6,000+ km²) under consideration by UNESCO.[1] The visitors' center for the park is at Sairandhri.
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