Everglades National Park

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. 

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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Category:World Heritage Sites in the United States
Category:Geography of Florida
Category:National parks in the United States