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Los Katíos National Park
| Site number: | 711 |
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| Type of site: | Natural | |
| Date of Inscription: | 1994 | |
| Location: | South America, Colombia, Provinces of Antioquia and Choco’ | |
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| Description: | Los Katios National Park (extending over 72,000 ha in north-western Colombia) covers low hills, forests and humid plains. The park reveals an exceptional biological diversity, acting as home to many threatened animal species and countless endemic plants. --WHMNet paraphrase from the description at WHC Site, where additional information is available. | |
| Los Katíos National Park is a national park located in northwest Colombia and covers 226 square miles (585 km²), around 172,800. It is a part of the Darién Gap, which covers Panama and Colombia. Also the Pan-American Highway is near by Los Katíos National Park. The national park was declared a World Heritage Site in 1994. It is contiguous to Darién National Park, Panama. --Wikipedia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. | ||
| Source: | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/711 | |
| Reference: | 1. UNESCO World Heritage Center, Site Page. | |