🌲 Longa-Mavinga National Park
Angola · Africa · National Park · 16.17°S, 20.25°E
Mavinga is a national park in Cuando Province in south-eastern Angola. It covers an area of 46,076 square kilometres (17,790 sq mi). The park was proclaimed in 2011 along with the neighbouring Luengue-Luiana National Park, which measures 22,610 km2 (8,730 sq mi). The two parks are contiguous and managed as a single unit. The parks were created to conserve the areas' high ecological and biological value. Mavinga forms the western border of Africa's largest conservation area, the Kavango-Zambezi Trans-Frontier Conservation Area.
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Quick facts
| Country | Angola |
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| Continent / region | Africa |
| Protection type | 🌲 National Park |
| Coordinates (approx.) | 16.17°S, 20.25°E · view on map |
Longa-Mavinga National Park is a national park in Angola, in Africa. The details of why Longa-Mavinga National Park is ecologically important are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).
More protected areas in Angola
Iona National Park · Cangandala National Park · Cameia National Park · Mupa National Park · Bicuari National Park · Quissama National Park · Luenge National Park · Luengue-Luiana National Park · Mucusso National Park · Mavinga National Park.