Everglades National Park
one-and-a-half million acres in Florida (US) managed by the National Park Service
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.[5]
| Everglades National Park | |
|---|---|
IUCN category II (national park) | |
.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 |
| Coordinates | 25°18′45″N 80°41′15″W / 25.3125000°N 80.6875000°W[1] |
| Area | 1,508,976 acres (6,106.61 km2) 1,508,243 acres (2,356.6 sq mi) federal[2] |
| Authorized | May 30, 1934 |
| Visitors | 597,124 (in 2018)[3] |
| Governing body | National Park Service |
| 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 |
| Designated | 4 June 1987 |
| Reference no. | 374[4] |
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.
References
change- ↑ "Everglades National Park". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. August 28, 1987. Retrieved March 28, 2017.
- ↑ "The National Parks: Index 2012–2016" (PDF). nps.gov. National Park Service. p. 47. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 November 2018. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
- ↑ "NPS Annual Recreation Visits Report". 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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