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National Park in Honduras
Montaña Santa Bárbara National Park
IUCN category II (national park)
Map showing the location of Montaña Santa Bárbara National ParkMap showing the location of Montaña Santa Bárbara National ParkLocation of Montaña Santa Bárbara in Honduras
LocationHonduras
Coordinates14°54′56″N 88°07′54″W / 14.91556°N 88.13167°W / 14.91556; -88.13167
Area121.3 km (46.8 sq mi)
Established1 January 1987

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.

Montaña de Santa Bárbara is an isolated karstic massif. It is bounded on the north by the Ulúa-Chamelecón Plain, and on the west by Lake Yojoa. There are tropical dry forests in the lowlands, moist forests at mid elevations, and montane forests and cloud forests at higher elevations.

Its peak can be reached from the southeast side, ascending from the village of Los Andes.

References

  1. ^ "Honduras - Montaña Santa Bárbara". United Nations Environment Programme. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
  2. Townsend, J. H. (2014). Characterizing the Chortís Block Biogeographic Province: geological, physiographic, and ecological associations and herpetofaunal diversity. Mesoamerican Herpetology, 1(2), 204-252.
National parks of Honduras
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