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Everglades National Park | |
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IUCN Category II (National Park) | |
Location in Florida##Location in the United States | |
Location | Miami-Dade, Monroe, & Collier counties, Florida, United States |
Nearest city | Florida City Everglades City |
Area | Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1850: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). |
Visitors | 597,124 (in 2018) |
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 |
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 is the third-largest national park in the contiguous United States after Death Valley and Yellowstone.