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Alta Murgia National Park

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Alta Murgia National Park is a national park in Puglia, southern Italy, established in 2004 and covering about 677.39 square kilometers in the Murgia geographical area, with headquarters in Gravina in Puglia near Bari. It was established to protect the grass steppe habitat that supports the lesser kestrel, and its territory also holds numerous sites of cultural and natural significance, including the World Heritage Site Castel del Monte and karst features such as sinkholes and caves. 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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Governance Type
Governance by Government 1
Realm
Terrestrial 1
International Designation
UNESCO World Heritage Site 1
Governing Body
Ministero dell'Ambiente 1
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1. Alta Murgia National Park (Wikipedia)
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    The Parco Nazionale dell'Alta Murgia is a national park in Puglia, southern Italy, established in 2004.
  • Introduction
    Alta Murgia National Park is a national park in Puglia, southern Italy, established in 2004 and covering about 677.39 square kilometers in the Murgia geographical area, with headquarters in Gravina in Puglia near Bari.
  • entity-description, international-designation unesco-world-heritage-site
    It was established to protect the grass steppe habitat that supports the lesser kestrel, and its territory also holds numerous sites of cultural and natural significance, including the World Heritage Site Castel del Monte and karst features such as sinkholes and caves.
  • Wikipedia infobox, governing_body field
    Ministero dell'Ambiente
  • Wikipedia infobox, governance-type government
    Ministero dell'Ambiente
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