Khao Yai
| Khao Yai National Park | |
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IUCN category II (national park)
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Heo Suwat waterfall
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| Location | Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand |
| Nearest city | Pak Chong District |
| Coordinates | 14°26′29″N 101°22′11″E / 14.44139°N 101.36972°ECoordinates: 14°26′29″N 101°22′11″E / 14.44139°N 101.36972°E |
| Area | 2,168 km2 (837 sq mi) |
| Established | 1962 |
| Visitors | 1.2 million (in FY2016) |
| Governing body | Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation |
Khao Yai National Park (Thai: เขาใหญ่, pronounced [kʰǎw jàj]) is a national park in Thailand.
Khao Yai National Park is in the western part of the Sankamphaeng Mountain Range, at the southwestern boundary of the Khorat Plateau. The highest mountain in the area of the park is 1,351 m high Khao Rom.
This park lies largely in Nakhon Ratchasima Province (Khorat), but also includes parts of Saraburi, Prachinburi, and Nakhon Nayok Provinces.
The park is the third largest in Thailand. It covers an area of 300 square kilometers, including tropical seasonal forests and grasslands. Its altitude mostly ranges from 400–1,000 m above sea level. There are 3,000 species of plants, 320 species of birds like red junglefowl and coral-billed ground cuckoo, and 66 species of mammals, including Asian black bear, Indian elephant, gaur, gibbon, Indian sambar deer, pig-tailed macaque, Indian muntjac, Ussuri dhole, and wild pig. There are no tigers in Khao Yai, and there haven't been any for at least twenty years. Unrelated monitoring by Freeland Foundation in collaboration with Department of National Park rangers has discovered tigers (the Indochinese tiger subspecies) in other parts of eastern Thailand where they were previously thought to have been completely extirpated, though this claim is irrelevant to the topic at hand. Its waterfalls include the 80 metre Heo Narok, and Heo Suwat made famous from the film The Beach. Namtok Sarika is popular with the Thais.
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