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Sagarmatha National Park

National Park

Sagarmatha National Park is a national park in the Khumbu region of northeastern Nepal, established in 1976 to protect the area surrounding Sagarmatha, the Nepali name for Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth. The park's terrain rises from forested lower valleys to alpine scrub and permanent snow and ice at its highest elevations, and it is home to the Sherpa people, whose villages, monasteries and mountaineering culture are woven into the protected landscape alongside wildlife such as the snow leopard and Himalayan tahr. It was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979 and is managed by Nepal's Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation.

Facts
Designation Category
National Park 1
Established Year
1976 1
Area (sq km)
1148 1
Governing Body
Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation 1
IUCN Category
II 1
Classification
Governance Type
Governance by Government 1
Realm
Terrestrial 1
International Designation
UNESCO World Heritage Site 1
Connections

Associated With

Mount Everest, Landforms

Sagarmatha National Park includes Mount Everest.

Source Sagarmatha National Park (Wikipedia)
Nepal, Countries

Sagarmatha National Park is in the Himalayas of eastern Nepal.

Source Sagarmatha National Park (Wikipedia)
Sources
1. Sagarmatha National Park (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Introduction
    Sagarmatha National Park is a national park in the Himalayas of eastern Nepal
  • Infobox, established
    19 July 1976
  • Infobox, area_km2
    1148
  • Infobox, governing_body
    Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation
  • Infobox, iucn_category
    II
  • Governing body field (existing citation)
    Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation
  • entity-description, realm terrestrial
    Sagarmatha National Park is a national park in the Khumbu region of northeastern Nepal, established in 1976 to protect the area surrounding Sagarmatha, the Nepali name for Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth.
  • entity-description, international-designation unesco-world-heritage-site
    It was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979 and is managed by Nepal's Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation.
  • Associated With: Mount Everest, Lead section
    It ranges in elevation from 2,845 to 8,848 m (9,334 to 29,029 ft) and includes Mount Everest.
  • Associated With: Nepal, Lead section
    Sagarmatha National Park is a national park in the Himalayas of eastern Nepal that was established in 1976 and encompasses an area of 1,148 km2 (443 sq mi) in the Solukhumbu District.
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