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.
| 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 |
| Area | 1,508,976 acres (6,106.61 km2) 1,508,243 acres (2,356.6 sq mi) federal |
| Authorized | May 30, 1934 |
| Visitors | 597,124 (in 2018) |
| 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 |
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.
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