🌲 Lagodekhi Protected Areas

Georgia · Asia · National Park · 41.82°N, 46.28°E

Lagodekhi Protected Areas, also known as Lagodekhi National Park, is a pair of protected areas in the Kakheti district of Georgia: Lagodekhi Strict Nature Reserve and Lagodekhi Managed Nature Reserve. The combined area of the two is 24,451 hectares (94.41 sq mi). The reserves are located in north-eastern Georgia on the southern slopes of the Caucasus and border Azerbaijan and Dagestan. Lagodekhi preserves a variety of rare local flora and fauna and was originally protected in 1912, under the Russian Empire, becoming the first such nature preserve on the territory of present-day Georgia. Their ecoregion is that of the Caucasus mixed forests.

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Quick facts

Country	Georgia
Continent / region	Asia
Protection type	🌲 National Park
Coordinates (approx.)	41.82°N, 46.28°E · view on map

Lagodekhi Protected Areas is a national park in Georgia, in Asia. The details of why Lagodekhi Protected Areas is ecologically important are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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