GARAMBA NATIONAL PARK

French Parc National des Garamba, national park in northeastern Congo (Kinshasa), bordering on The Sudan. The park, which was created in 1938, has an area of 1,900 square miles (4,920 square km) and is a continuation of the Sudanese savanna fed by the Garamba and Dungu rivers. Wildlife includes the rare white rhinoceros, hippopotamuses, and giraffes. In the south there is an elephant station, Gangala-Na-Bodio, one of the few of its kind in the world, where the animals are domesticated for use in forestry.