Everglades National Park
Everglades National Park is an American national park that protects the southern twenty percent of the original Everglades in Florida. The park is the largest tropical wilderness in the United States and the largest wilderness of any kind east of the Mississippi River. An average of one million people visit the park each year.[3]
| Everglades National Park | |
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IUCN Category II (National Park) | |
.jpg) Sunset over the Everglades river of grass | |
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| Location | Miami-Dade, Monroe, & Collier counties, Florida, United States |
| Nearest city | Florida City Everglades City |
| Area | 1,508,976 acres (610,661 ha) |
| Visitors | 597,124 (in 2018)[1] |
| Website | Everglades National Park |
| Type | Natural |
| Criteria | viii, ix, x |
| Designated | 1979 (3rd session) |
| Reference no. | 76 |
| State Party | United States |
| Region | Europe and North America |
| Endangered | 1993–2007; 2010–present |
Invalid designation | |
| Designated | 4 June 1987 |
| Reference no. | 374[2] |
Everglades is the third-largest national park in the contiguous United States after Death Valley and Yellowstone.
UNESCO declared the Everglades & Dry Tortugas Biosphere Reserve in 1976 and listed the park as a World Heritage Site in 1979.
Everglades National Park Media
Main Everglades map from the official park brochure.
Alligators thrive in freshwater sloughs and marl prairies.
Alligator in freshwater swamp
A great blue heron along the Anhinga Trail
About 160 Florida panthers inhabit hammocks and pinelands of the Everglades.
Sunrise on the pine rocklands on Long Pine Key Nature Trail
Alligator in a cypress dome
Manatees inhabit shallow water around mangroves.
Mangroves reduce coastal erosion and shelter wildlife.
A Calusa chickee at the Florida Museum of Natural History
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References
- ↑ Five Year Annual Recreation Visits ReportPublic Use Statistic Office, National Park Service. Retrieved March 6, 2019.
- ↑ Everglades National Park. Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
- ↑ Park StatisticsNational Park Service. Retrieved March 28, 2017.
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