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Everglades National Park is a national park of the United States 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 is the third-lar…
Everglades National Park is a national park of the United States 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 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, and the Ramsar Convention included the park on its list of Wetlands of International Importance in 1987. Everglades is one of only three locations in the world to appear on all three lists.
  • Location: Miami-Dade, Monroe, & Collier counties, Florida, United States
  • Nearest city: Florida City · Everglades City
  • Area: 1,508,976 acres (6,106.61 km²) · 1,508,243 acres (2,356.6 sq mi) federal
  • Authorized: May 30, 1934
  • Visitors: 1,155,193 (in 2022)
  • Governing body: National Park Service

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