🌲 Sequoia National Park

United States · Americas · National Park · 36.56°N, 118.77°W

Sequoia National Park is a national park of the United States in the southern Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, California. The park was established on September 25, 1890, and today protects 404,064 acres of forested mountainous terrain. Encompassing a vertical relief of nearly 13,000 feet (4,000 m), the park contains the highest point in the contiguous United States, Mount Whitney, at 14,505 feet (4,421 m) above sea level. The park is south of, and contiguous with, Kings Canyon National Park; both parks are administered by the National Park Service together as Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. UNESCO designated the areas as Sequoia-Kings Canyon Biosphere Reserve in 1976.

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Quick facts

Country	United States
Continent / region	Americas
Protection type	🌲 National Park
Coordinates (approx.)	36.56°N, 118.77°W · view on map

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

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