Kaieteur National Park, established in 1929 and expanded from five to 242 square miles in 1999, is Guyana's only national park and protects part of the Guianan moist forests ecoregion in the remote Potaro-Siparuni Region. Its centerpiece is Kaieteur Falls, the largest single-drop waterfall on Earth by volume of water, and the park is also home to the golden rocket frog, a species found nowhere else, which breeds exclusively inside specific bromeliad plants. The park protects both ecological and cultural heritage, sustaining Amerindian communities that have lived in the surrounding forest for centuries.
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Designation Category Established Year Area (sq km) Governing Body IUCN Category Classification
Governance Type Governing Body
Governing Body (category)Guyana Protected Areas Trust 1 Sources
1. Kaieteur National Park (Wikipedia)
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Kaieteur National Park is a national park located in the Potaro-Siparuni Region of Guyana, roughly 633 km (393.33 miles) south of Georgetown, the nation's capital, closer to the border with Brazil than to the Caribbean coast.
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Kaieteur National Park is a national park located in the Potaro-Siparuni Region of Guyana, roughly 633 km (393.33 miles) south of Georgetown, the nation's capital, closer to the border with Brazil than to the Caribbean coast.
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Protected Areas Trust
View the Source 2. Kaieteur National Park (Wikidata)
Wikimedia Foundation- Wikidata P31 (instance of) = Q46169
Wikidata item Q3364456
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- Part Of: Guyana, Wikidata item, property P17 (country)
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Wikidata Q3364456, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Wikidata: Guyana
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