Which park, Sierra Nevada National Park or Doñana National Park, was established first?
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Sierra Nevada National Park (Spain) The Parque Nacional de Sierra Nevada (known as the Sierra Nevada National Park in English) is a national park located in the provinces of Granada, Almería, and Málaga in Andalusia, Spain. It was declared a national park on 14 January 1999. It stretches from the Alpujarra to El Marquesado and the Lecrin Valley, covering a total area of 85,883 hectares, making it the largest national park in Spain. It incorporates the municipalities of Abla, Abrucena, Alboloduy, Alsodux, Bayárcal, Beires, Canjáyar, Fiñana, Fondón, Laujar de Andarax, Nacimiento, Ohanes, Paterna del Río, Rágol, Las Tres Villas, Aldeire, Alpujarra de La Sierra, Bérchules, Bubión, Busquístar, Cáñar, Capileira, Dílar, Dólar, Dúrcal, Ferreira, Güéjar Sierra, Huéneja, Jerez del Marquesado, Juviles, Lanjarón, Lanteira, Lecrín, Lugros, Monachil, Nevada, Nigüelas, Pampaneira, Pórtugos, Soportújar, La Taha, Trevélez, Valor and La Zubia.
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Doñana National Park Doñana National Park is a natural reserve in Andalusia, southern Spain, in the provinces of Huelva (most of its territory) and Seville. It covers 543 km² , of which 135 km² are a protected area. The park is an area of marshes, shallow streams, and sand dunes in Las Marismas, the delta where the Guadalquivir River flows into the Atlantic Ocean. It was established as a nature reserve in 1969 when the World Wildlife Fund joined with the Spanish government and purchased a section of marshes to protect it. The eco-system has been under constant threat by the draining of the marshes, the use of river water to boost agricultural production by irrigating land along the coast, water pollution by upriver mining, and the expansion of tourist facilities. It is named after wife of the seventh Duke of Medina-Sidonia.
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San Mateo National Forest San Mateo National Forest was established as the San Mateo Forest Reserve by the U.S. Forest Service in New Mexico on November 5, 1906 with 424663 acre . It became a National Forest on March 4, 1907. On July 1, 1908 the entire forest was added to Magdalena National Forest and the name was discontinued.
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Doña Juana Doña Juana (Spanish: "Volcán Doña Juana" ) is a stratovolcano, located within the Doña Juana-Cascabel Volcanic Complex National Natural Park (Spanish: "Parque Nacional Natural Complejo Volcánico Doña Juana-Cascabel" ) in Nariño, Colombia.
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Cascade–Siskiyou National Monument The Cascade–Siskiyou National Monument is a national monument that protects 86,774 acre of forest and grasslands at the junction of the Cascade Range and the Siskiyou Mountains in southwestern Oregon and northwestern California, United States. The monument is managed by the Bureau of Land Management as part of the National Landscape Conservation System and was established in a presidential proclamation by President Bill Clinton on June 9, 2000.
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Sierra Safari Zoo The Sierra Safari Zoo is a zoo north of Reno, Nevada, United States. Opening in 1989, it has grown to become the largest zoo in the state. It houses a wide variety of exotic animals from around the world, including primates, big cats, reptiles, sloths, and others.
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Mount Shasta Wilderness The Mount Shasta Wilderness is a 38200 acre federally designated wilderness area located 5 mi east of Mount Shasta City in northern California. The US Congress passed the 1984 California Wilderness Act that set aside the Mount Shasta Wilderness. The US Forest Service is the managing agency as the wilderness is within the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. The area is named for and is dominated by the Mount Shasta volcano which reaches a traditionally quoted height of 14162 ft above sea level, but official sources give values ranging from 14104 ft from one USGS project, to 14179 ft via the NOAA. Mount Shasta is one of only two peaks in the state over 14000 ft outside the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. The other summit is White Mountain Peak in the Great Basin of east-central California.
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Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area, or Hahn Park, is a state park unit of California in the Baldwin Hills Mountains of Los Angeles. The park is managed by the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation. As one of the largest urban parks and regional open spaces in the Greater Los Angeles Area, many have called it "L.A.'s Central Park". The 401 acre park was established in 1984.
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Pinnacles National Park Pinnacles National Park is a U.S. National Park protecting a mountainous area located east of the Salinas Valley in Central California, about 5 mi east of Soledad and 80 mi southeast of San Jose. The park's namesakes are the eroded leftovers of the western half of an extinct volcano that has moved 200 mi from its original location on the San Andreas Fault, embedded in a portion of the California Pacific Coast Ranges. Pinnacles is managed by the National Park Service and the majority of the park is protected as wilderness.
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Santa Rosa-Paradise Peak Wilderness The Santa Rosa-Paradise Peak Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the southern part of the Santa Rosa Range in Humboldt County, in northern Nevada in the western United States. It covers an area of approximately 31000 acre , and is administered by the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.
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Abughilan National Park Abughilan National Park is a national park of Libya. It was established in 1992 and covers an area of 4000 ha .
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Great Western Divide The Great Western Divide is a Sierra Nevada mountain range that forms part of the border between the Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks. Some of the summits of the Great Western Divide reach well over 13000 ft . The High Sierra Trail crosses the range at Kaweah Gap from Sequoia National Park.
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Muir Pass Muir Pass is a mountain pass in the Sierra Nevada of California, United States, in Kings Canyon National Park. It is named for John Muir.
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Ta Phraya National Park Ta Phraya National Park (Thai: อุทยานแห่งชาติตาพระยา ) is a protected area at the eastern end of the Sankamphaeng Range in the area where these mountains meet the Dangrek Range, near the Thai-Cambodian border. It is largely in Ta Phraya District, Sa Kaeo Province, district after which it is named, although the park also includes sectors of Ban Kruat, Non Din Daeng, and Lahan Sai Districts of Buriram Province. The park is east of Pang Sida National Park. It was established in 1996.
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Bañuela Bañuela or La Bañuela, also known as "La Mójina", is the highest peak of the Sierra Morena, Spain.
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Mount San Jacinto State Park Mount San Jacinto State Park is in the San Jacinto Mountains, of the Peninsular Ranges system, in Riverside County, California, United States. A majority of the park is within the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument. The park is near the Greater Los Angeles and the San Diego metropolitan area.
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Lake Tahoe – Nevada State Park Lake Tahoe–Nevada State Park is a state park of Nevada, United States, on the northeast shores of Lake Tahoe. The park comprises six management units which total 14301 acre . The park is in the Western Nevada Region of Nevada State Parks. It includes the Marlette Lake Water System which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.
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Owens Peak Owens Peak is the highest point in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains at more than 8,400 feet. The peak stands near the center of the Owens Peak Wilderness which was designated by United States Congress in 1994, and it now has a total of 74060 acre . The eastern watershed of Owens Peak is composed of three main canyons: Grapevine Canyon, Short Canyon, and Indian Wells Canyon (north to south, respectively). The Sierra Nevada meets the Great Basin and the Mojave Desert here, creating an unusual ecosystem.
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Montaña Santa Bárbara National Park Montaña Santa Bárbara National Park (previously named Santa Bárbara National Park) is a national park in Honduras. It was established on 1 January 1987 and covers an area of 121.3 square kilometres. It has an altitude of 2,777 metres.
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La Campana National Park La Campana National Park is located in the Cordillera de la Costa, Quillota Province, in the Valparaíso Region of Chile. La Campana National Park and the Vizcachas Mountains lie northwest of Santiago. This national park covers approximately 80 sqkm and is home to one of the last palm forests of "Jubaea chilensis" (Chilean Wine Palm), which prehistorically had a much wider distribution than at present. Another attraction is the Cerro La Campana, which lends its name to the park. In 1834 Charles Darwin climbed this mountain, during the second voyage of HMS Beagle.
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Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks The Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks is the consolidated management structure for Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon National Park in California. The two parks have been jointly administered since 1943. They have a combined size of 1353 mi2 . It was designated the UNESCO Sequoia-Kings Canyon Biosphere Reserve in 1976.
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Choquette Hot Springs Provincial Park Choquette Hot Springs Provincial Park is a provincial park in the Stikine Country region of northwestern British Columbia, Canada. Despite the park's name, the official and most commonly used name of the springs it was established to protect is Stikine River Hot Springs. The park gets its name by the springs' proximity to Choquette Bar, site of the first gold strike of the Stikine Gold Rush of 1861 and named for Alexander "Buck" Choquette, the strike's discoverer.