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Everglades National Park in south Florida is more than 1.5 million acres of the largest subtropical wilderness in the United States. It boasts more than 700 plant and 300 bird species including the endangered crocodile, manatee and Florida panther. The Everglades has been designated a World Heritage Site, International Biosphere Reserve, and Wetland of International Importance.
The Everglades is a large watershed that begins near Lake Okeechobee and flows south in a slow-moving river 60 miles wide and over 100 miles long. The Everglades is shaped by water and fire, with floods in the wet season and drought in the dry season. (wiki)
We visited the Everglades over two days in February 2010.
February 3rd, 2012 at 11:48 am
[...] Park in Texas is home to the largest concentration of alligators in the United States outside the Everglades (and Gainesville ). There are an estimated 300 adult alligators in the park, and we saw a [...]