Bunaken National Marine Park

Bunaken is an 8 km ² island of Bunaken National Marine Park.  Bunaken is located at the northern tip of Sulawesi island, Indonesia. Bunaken is one of exotic Indonesia 's most famous diving and snorkeling areas that can attract visitors from around the world.

Bunaken National Park extends over an area of ​​890.65 km ² which is only 3% of the land, including Bunaken Island and Manado Tua island, Mantehage, Nain and Siladen. Park is officially designated as a national marine park in 1991.

Bunaken National Marine Park waters reach the 1566 m deep in the Bay of Manado, with temperatures ranging between 27 to 29 ° C.    Having biodiversity of coral, fish, echinoderms or sponges.  In particular, 7 out of 8 species of giant clams that occur in the world, occur in Bunaken.  It also claims to have seven times more genera of coral from Hawaii and has more than 70 % of known fish species in the Indo - West Pacific.

Crescent-shaped Bunaken, lie at the heart of the park. A snorkeler or diver diving around Lekuan or Fukui who is a place that has more than 33 species of butterfly fish and various types of groupers, damsels, gobies fish and rivets.  The gobies, smallish fish with bulging eyes and modified fins.