Hazarganji-Chiltan National Park — Attraction in Quetta Saddar Tehsil

Hazarganji Chiltan National Park, is another beautiful national park of Pakistan. The area is mountainous with precipitous slopes divided by ravines. The Chiltan Hills and Hazar Ganji Range lie west and east, respectively, of the north-south Chiltan divide. It can easily be reached from the provincial capital Quetta and attracts many visitors. Facilities include a museum, picnic spots and accommodation in rest houses. Mammals in the park include--Chiltan wildgoat or Markhor, Suleiman Markhor, Urial sheep (Gad), Indian wolf, Stripped hyena, Leopard, Caracal, Jackal, Red fox, Porcupine and Desert hare. Birds in the park are--Houbara bustard, Griffon vulture, Egyptian vulture, Honey buzzard, Laggar falcon, Peregrine falcon, Kestrel, Indian sparrow hawk, Scops owl, Common cuckoo, European bee-eater, Rock partridge, European nightjar, Long-billed pipit, Orphean warbler, Variable wheatear, Blue rock thrush, Stonechat, and Lichtenstein's desert finch. Reptiles in the park are-- Monitor lizard, Russell's viper, Saw scaled viper and Spiny...

Hazarganji Chiltan National Park is a national park in the Mastung District of western Balochistan Province of Pakistan. It lies between Chiltan on its west and Hazarganji on the east. The park was established in 1980 to provide the habitat to rare Chiltan ibexes found in the area. It was established in 1980 and covers 325,000 acre of land located close to the Koh-i-Chiltan mountain in Quetta's outskirt.

The park is located in the Sulaiman Mountains, with desert and forest habitats, about 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of the city of Quetta The name comes from the travelling route between the mountains called "Hazarganji", which means (of a thousand treasures) in native language as it was a historical passage for the Greco-Bactrian, the Mongols, the Scythians and migrating hordes of Baloch tribes. The biodiversity of this park comprises 30 species of mammals (9 species of large mammals and 21 species of small mammals), 120 species of avifauna (36 resident and 84 migratory) and 30 species...

Hazarganji Chiltan National Park is the essential best known place for visitors to travel while their stay in Quetta. Hazarganji signifies “from one thousand gems,” in regard to the caption that arrogates over a thousand gems are hidden in the preserved thirty-five thousand Accho parking area. Hazarganji Chiltan domestic parkland is situated a bit more 10 miles from Quetta and in addition to was constructed to protect the Chiltan barbaric Markhor or goat. The park is the habitation to foreign plant life species like juniper, pistachio and...