Gwangpo Bay
Bay in Sacheon, South Korea
Gwangpo Bay (Korean: 광포만) is located in Sacheon, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. The bay is located at the estuary of Gonyang Stream, and the city is located in the middle of the southern seashore of South Korea. Gwangpo Bay is a part of larger Sacheon Bay, which is surrounded by Sacheon City, Gwangyang City, and Namhae County.
According to the Korean Ministry of Land, Transportation, and Marine Affairs, a plan made by local government in 2008 to reclaim Gwangpo Bay covers an area of 1,976,256 m2 (488.343 acres). The length of the bay is about 3 km (1.9 mi), and the width of the bay is about 1.3 km (0.81 mi).
Wildlife
According to the Sacheon branch of the Korean Federation for Environmental Movement (Friends of the Earth Korea), 117 species of birds were found in the bay by the research conducted from 2000 to 2007. During the research, 150 Saunders's gulls were found together. White-naped cranes and black-faced spoonbills were also found there.
A large area of the bay is covered with seashore lawn grass (Zoysia sinica), and it is estimated that this is the biggest population of this species in Korea. Populations of a threatened species of Ellobium chinense, which belongs to the mollusc family Ellobiidae were found in June 2008 among the seashore lawn grass.
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