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Cañón del Río Blanco National Park: 1938: 556: Veracruz: Cañón del Sumidero National Park: 1980: 217: Chiapas: Cerro de Garnica National Park: 1936: 9: Michoacán: Cerro de la Estrella National Park: 1938: 11: Distrito Federal (Ciudad de México) Cerro de Las Campanas National Park: 1937: 0.58: Querétaro: Cofre de Perote National Park ...
There are currently 232 Protected Natural Areas in Mexico, covering 98 million hectares in total. They are protected and administered by the National Commission of Protected Natural Areas (Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas, or 'CONANP'), a federal agency under the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT). [1]
Pages in category "National parks of Mexico" The following 57 pages are in this category, out of 57 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
Mexico has 35 sites on the list (the highest number of sites per country in the Americas) and a further 24 tentative sites. [3] Mexico's first six sites were inscribed on the list at the 11th Session of the World Heritage Committee, held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France in 1987.
Mexico's Natural resources protection areas (or Áreas de Protección de Recursos Naturales in Spanish) are nine federally-recognized protected areas in Mexico that are administrated by the federal National Commission of Protected Natural Areas (Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas, or CONANP). [1]
Yellowstone National Park in the United States was the first national park in the world. [1] [2] This is a list of the number of national parks per nation, as defined by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Nearly 100 countries around the world have lands classified as a national park by this definition.
El Tepeyac National Park is one of a number of federally recognized national parks in Mexico that are protected natural areas and administered by the federal National Commission of Protected Natural Areas (CONANP), a subsidiary of SEMARNAT (Ministry of Environment). It is one of the few green areas located north of the Mexico City suburbs.
The Lagunas de Montebello National Park is in the municipalities of La Trinitaria and La Independencia in southeastern Chiapas state, close to Guatemala.The nearest city is Comitán, an hour's drive to the west; the popular tourist city of San Cristóbal de las Casas is a further two more hours to the west.