Pollino National Park is an Italian national park in the southern Italian peninsula, spanning the provinces of Cosenza, Matera and Potenza and named for the Pollino mountain massif. Established in 1993, it covers 1,925.65 square kilometers across Basilicata and Calabria, split between roughly 88,650 hectares on the Lucanian side and 103,915 hectares on the Calabrian side, making it the largest national park in Italy and one of the fifty largest in the world. It is home to the oldest known tree in Europe, a Heldreich's pine estimated at about 1,230 years old, and its symbol is the rare Bosnian pine; the common beech is the park's most prevalent tree, alongside a variety of important medicinal herbs. Since its inclusion in UNESCO's global list of geoparks in November 2015, the park has also been recognized as a World Heritage Site. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Designation Category Established Year Area (sq km) Governing BodyMinistero dell'Ambiente 1 Classification
Governance TypeGovernance by Government 1 International DesignationUNESCO World Heritage Site 1 Governing Body
Governing Body (category)Ministero dell Ambiente (Italy) 1 Sources
1. Pollino National Park (Wikipedia)
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Pollino National Park (Italian: Parco Nazionale del Pollino) is an Italian national park in the southern Italian Peninsula, in the provinces of Cosenza, Matera and Potenza.
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Pollino National Park (Italian: Parco Nazionale del Pollino) is an Italian national park in the southern Italian Peninsula, in the provinces of Cosenza, Matera and Potenza. Its named from the homonymous mountain massif Pollino.
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Since November 2015, with the inclusion in the global list of geoparks by UNESCO, the Pollino Park is considered a World Heritage Site.
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Ministero dell'Ambiente
View the Source2. Wikidata: Pollino National Park
- Wikidata Q1072838, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata P2046 (area), preferred/latest rank
- Wikidata P31 (instance of) = Q46169
- Wikidata Q1072838 P571 inception
- Part Of: Italy, Wikidata item, property P17 (country)
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