Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park in the Province of Lleida is Catalonia's only national park and sits within the Pyrenees. Established in 1955 as Spain's fifth national park, it protects a core area of about 141 square kilometers with a further 267 square kilometer buffer zone, and its Catalan name, meaning roughly the winding streams and Saint Maurice lake, describes its defining features. Elevations climb from 1,600 to 3,017 meters at Besiberri Sud, and the park holds nearly 200 lakes carved out by past glaciation, along with alpine ecosystems that support Pyrenean chamois, brown bears, marmots, golden eagles, and lammergeiers. It has been a protected Ramsar wetland site since 2007. 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 BodySpanish Ministry of Environment.] managed: [http://www.gencat.cat/generalitat/eng/govern/estructura/departaments.htm Catalan Department of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Food, and the Environment 1 Classification
Governance TypeGovernance by Government 1 International DesignationRamsar Site (Wetland of International Importance) 1 Governing Body
Governing Body (category)Ministry of the Environment 1 Sources
1. Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park (Wikipedia)
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Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park (Catalan: Parc Nacional d'Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici, Spanish: Parque Nacional de Aiguas Tortas y Lago de San Mauricio), is one of the fifteen Spanish national parks, and the only one located in Catalonia.
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Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park in the Province of Lleida is Catalonia's only national park and sits within the Pyrenees.
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Since 2007 it has been designated as a protected Ramsar site.
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Spanish Ministry of Environment.] managed: Catalan Department of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Food, and the Environment
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Spanish Ministry of Environment.] managed: Catalan Department of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, Food, and the Environment
View the Source2. Wikidata: Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park
- Wikidata Q1470066, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata P2046 (area), preferred/latest rank
- Wikidata P31 (instance of) = Q46169
- Wikidata Q1470066 P571 inception
- Part Of: Spain, Wikidata item, property P17 (country)
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