🌿 Sangay National Park

Ecuador · Americas · Natural · 2.00°S, 78.00°W

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Sangay National Park
Sangay National Park is a national park located in the Morona-Santiago, Chimborazo, Tungurahua, Cañar, and Azuay provinces of Ecuador. The park contains two active volcanoes, one extinct volcano El Altar. Protecting a range of elevations from 900 to 5,319 meters above sea level, Sangay National Park contains a wide variety of habitats, including glaciers, volcanic landscapes, tropical rainforests, cloud forests, wetlands, grasslands, and one of the largest regions of páramo in Ecuador. 327 lakes feed into a vast wetland system covering 31.5 square kilometers (12.2 mi2).

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Quick facts

CountryEcuador
Continent / regionAmericas
List type🌿 Natural heritage site
Coordinates (approx.)2.00°S, 78.00°W · view on map

Sangay National Park is a natural World Heritage site in Ecuador, in Americas. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Sangay National Park was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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Coordinates are an approximate site centre. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.

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