The Barisan Mountains are a mountain range on the western side of Sumatra, Indonesia, covering nearly 1,700 km (1,050 mi) of the island. The Barisan range consists primarily of volcanoes shrouded in dense jungle cover. The highest peak of the range is Mount Kerinchi at 3,800 metres (12,467 ft). The most general definition of a mountain range is a group of mountains bordered by lowlands. ... Sumatra (also spelled Sumatara and Sumatera) is the sixth largest island of the world (approximately 470,000 km²) and is the largest part of Indonesia. ... A volcano is a geological landform (usually a mountain) where a substance, usually magma (rock of the Earths interior made molten or liquid by extremely high temperatures along with a reduction in pressure and/or the introduction of water or other volatiles) erupts through the surface of a planet. ... Mount Kerinchi (also spelled Kerintji, among several other ways, and referred to as Gunung Kerenci, Gadang, Berapi Kurinci, Korinci, or Peak of Indrapura as well) is the highest mountain in Sumatra, and the highest peak in Indonesia outside Papua. ... The metre (or meter) (symbol: m) is the SI base unit of length. ...
BarisanMountains (Indonesian Pegunungan Barisan), volcanic mountain chain extending for about 1705 km (about 1060 mi) along the length of the island of Sumatra, in Indonesia.
The Barisan lie near the western edge of the island and form one of Sumatra's three parallel land regions.
In February 1994 an earthquake measuring between 6.4 and 7.2 on the Richter scale shook the southern part of the Barisan.
Barisan Selatan National Park comprises of 365,000 hectares of forest in the Bukit BarisanMountains.
Sumatran tigers, the Malayan tapir, elephant, Sumatran serow, siamang, agile gibbons, clouded leopards, wild dogs, reticulated pythons, water monitors, squirrels the size of large cats, a rare viable population of Sumatran rhinoceros; these are just a handful of the animals found here.
Fortunately their distance from one another is not so great that the groups cannot interact, and the habitat between them is quite suitable for tigers.
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