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The Ngorongoro Conservation Area is not a
national park. It is a unique protected area supporting an experiment in balancing land-use
by pastoralists and their livestock, wildlife and tourism.
The main attraction in this conservation
area is the Ngorongoro Crater, which supports some sixteen thousand wild mammals, including
the only population in East Africa of accessible, free-roaming black rhino in their natural
habitat - not fenced in nor surrounded by moats. Other attractions are the archaeological
sites in Oldupai Gorge and five other calderas.
Ngorongoro is the largest crater in the
world with all its walls intact. With an average altitude of 7,800 feet the rim looms over the
120 square miles crater floor 2,000 feet below.
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