Consejo Nacional de Areas Protegidas
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The National Council of Protected Areas of Guatemala
(in Spanish
: Consejo Nacional de Areas Protegidas, CONAP) is a government agency responsible for the conservation, rehabilitation, and protection of Guatemala's natural resources and its biodiversity
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: Sistema Guatemalteco de Áreas Protegidas, SIGAP). SIGAP comprises all of the areas in Guatemala that are protected, such as parks and monuments. SIGAP was created with the goals of preserving, recovering, and protecting the natural resources and biological diversity of Guatemala.
SIGAP consists of 152 protected areas within the country. Specific categories of protection include national parks, biotopes, biosphere reserves, areas with several uses, forest reserves, natural monuments, cultural monuments, scenic routes and trails, marine parks, regional parks, recreational parks, and private nature reserves.
Guatemala
Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...
(in Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
: Consejo Nacional de Areas Protegidas, CONAP) is a government agency responsible for the conservation, rehabilitation, and protection of Guatemala's natural resources and its biodiversity
Guatemala Biodiversity
According to Parkswatch and the IUCN, Guatemala is considered the fifth biodiversity hotspot in the world. The country has 14 ecoregions ranging from mangrove forest , in both ocean littorals, dry forests and scrublands in the eastern highlands, subtropical and tropical rain forests, wetlands,...
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Guatemalan System of Protected Areas
Under the authority of CONAP is the Guatemalan System of Protected Areas (in SpanishSpanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
: Sistema Guatemalteco de Áreas Protegidas, SIGAP). SIGAP comprises all of the areas in Guatemala that are protected, such as parks and monuments. SIGAP was created with the goals of preserving, recovering, and protecting the natural resources and biological diversity of Guatemala.
SIGAP consists of 152 protected areas within the country. Specific categories of protection include national parks, biotopes, biosphere reserves, areas with several uses, forest reserves, natural monuments, cultural monuments, scenic routes and trails, marine parks, regional parks, recreational parks, and private nature reserves.