Noel Kempff Mercado National Park World Heritage Site

Official name

Noel Kempff Mercado National Park | UNESCO

Country

Bolivia | Map

Continent

South America

Location

Velasco Province, Santa Cruz Department
-14.2666° Lat, -60.8666° Lon | Map

Code

967

Time Zone

America/La_Paz (-04, -0400)

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Category

Natural

Description

Inscribed 2000. The National Park is one of the largest (1,523,000 ha) and most intact parks in the Amazon Basin. With an altitudinal range of 200 m to nearly 1,000 m, it is the site of a rich mosaic of habitat types from Cerrado savannah and forest to upland evergreen Amazonian forests. The park boasts an evolutionary history dating back over a billion years to the Precambrian period. An estimated 4,000 species of flora as well as over 600 bird species and viable populations of many globally endangered or threatened vertebrate species live in the park.