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 | |
|---|---|
IUCN Category II (National Park) | |
| File:Sunset over the River of Grass, NPSphoto, G.Gardner (9255157507).jpg Sunset over the Everglades river of grass | |
| Location in Florida##Location in the United States | |
| 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] |
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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.
A great blue heron along the Anhinga Trail
About 160 Florida panthers inhabit hammocks and pinelands of the Everglades.
- South Florida rocklands on Everglades National Park Long Pine Key Nature Trail.jpg
Sunrise on the pine rocklands on Long Pine Key Nature Trail
- Cypres dome with Alligator, NPSphoto, G.Gardner (9101883836).jpg
Alligator in a cypress dome
- Manatee 1670 EVER, NPSPhoto, Nov 76 (9257870564).jpg
Manatees inhabit shallow water around mangroves.
Mangroves reduce coastal erosion and shelter wildlife.
- Calusa chickee and terrace.jpg
A Calusa chickee at the Florida Museum of Natural History
- Ted Smallwood Store on Chokoloskee Island.jpg
Ted Smallwood Store on Chokoloskee Island
References
- ↑ "Five Year Annual Recreation Visits Report". Public Use Statistic Office, National Park Service. Retrieved March 6, 2019.
- ↑ "Everglades National Park". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
- ↑ "Park Statistics". National Park Service. Retrieved March 28, 2017.
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