🌲 Sangay National Park

Ecuador · Americas · National Park · 1.83°S, 78.33°W

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

Country	Ecuador
Continent / region	Americas
Protection type	🌲 National Park
Coordinates (approx.)	1.83°S, 78.33°W · view on map

Sangay National Park is a national park in Ecuador, in Americas. The details of why Sangay National Park is ecologically important are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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