Wood Buffalo National Park (Wood Buffalo National Park (in)) | |
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Region | Rivière-la-Paix Valley |
IUCN Category | II (National Park) |
Administration | Parks Canada |
Area | 44 807 km² |
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![]() 59 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ N 112 ° 58 ′ 59 ″ W | |
Official site | |
the Wood Buffalo National Park is a national park ofAlberta to Canada. It has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its population of bison, the largest in North America.
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Wood Buffalo National Park is one of the largest national parks in the world, with an area of over 44 000 km2. It protects bison herds and an exceptional and representative example of the boreal plains of Northern Canada. The park is located straddling the border between the Northwest of theAlberta and the South of Northwest Territories, but the majority of its territory is located in Alberta. It shares its limits with the Caribou Mountains Wilderness Provincial Park (w: fr) in the southwest, the La Butte Creek Provincial Wilderness Park to the east and the Richardson River Dunes Wilderness Provincial Park (w: en) to the southeast.