List of national parks in Ecuador - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

National parks

There are 11 national parks:

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Cotopaxi Cotopaxi National Park Cotopaxi National Park is a protected area in Ecuador situated in the Cotopaxi Province, Napo Province and Pichincha Province. The volcano that lends its name to the park is located within its boundaries. Cotopaxi volcano is one of the tallest active volcanoes in the world.Cotopaxi is located an...	Cotopaxi Province Cotopaxi Province Cotopaxi is one of the provinces of Ecuador. The capital is Latacunga. The province contains the Cotopaxi Volcano, an intermittent volcano with a height of 19,388 feet.- Cantons :The province is divided into 7 cantons...	1975
El Cajas El Cajas The Parque Nacional Cajas is a national park in the highlands of Ecuador. It is located about 30 km west from Cuenca, the capital of the province of Azuay. The area of 285.44 km² between 3100m and 4450m above sea level offers a tundra vegetation on a jagged landscape of hills and valleys...	Azuay Province Azuay Province Azuay is a province of Ecuador, created 25 June 1824. It encompasses an area of . Its capital is Cuenca. It is located in the south center of Ecuador in the highlands. Its mountains reach above sea level in the national park of El Cajas....	1996
Galápagos Galapagos National Park Galápagos National Park, established in 1959, is Ecuador's first national park. The government of Ecuador designated 97% of the land area of Galápagos as the country's first National Park...	Galápagos Province Galápagos Province Galápagos is a province of Ecuador in the country's Insular region, located approximately off the western coast of the mainland. The capital is Puerto Baquerizo Moreno....

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Llanganates National Park

Llanganates National Park is a protected area in Ecuador situated in the Cotopaxi Province, Napo Province, Pastaza Province and Tungurahua Province. The name, "llanganates" supposedly comes from "beautiful mountain" in Quechua. Located within the park is the similarly named Cerro Hermoso which...

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Cotopaxi Province

Cotopaxi is one of the provinces of Ecuador. The capital is Latacunga. The province contains the Cotopaxi Volcano, an intermittent volcano with a height of 19,388 feet.- Cantons :The province is divided into 7 cantons...

, Napo

Napo Province

Napo is a province in Ecuador. Its capital is Tena. The province contains the Napo River. The province is low developed without much industrial presence. The thick rainforest is home to many natives that remain isolated by preference, descendents of those who fled the Spanish invasion in the Andes,...

, Pastaza

Pastaza Province

Pastaza is a province in the Oriente of Ecuador located in the eastern jungle. The capital is Puyo, founded on May 12, 1899 and which boasts 25,800 inhabitants...

and Tungurahua Province

Tungurahua Province

Tungurahua is one of the twenty-four provinces of Ecuador. Its capital is Ambato. The province takes its name from the Tungurahua volcano, which is located within the boundaries of the provinces.-Population:...

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Machalilla National Park

Machalilla National Park is a preserve in the Ecuadorian Manabí Province near Puerto López and the rural parish of Machalilla, a small fishing village in the vicinity of the park....

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Manabí Province

Manabí is a province in Ecuador. Its capital is Portoviejo. The province is named after the Manabí people.-Economy:Manabí's economy is based heavily on natural resources such as cacao, bananas, cotton, etc. It's industrial sector is based on Tuna canning, tobacco, and alcoholic beverage production...

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| Podocarpus

Podocarpus National Park

Podocarpus National Park is a national park located in the provinces of Zamora Chinchipe and Loja, in the south-east of Ecuador. It was created in 1982....

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Zamora-Chinchipe Province

Zamora Chinchipe is a Province of the Republicof Ecuador, located at the southeastern end of the Amazon Basin, which shares borders with the Ecuadorian provinces of Azuay and Morona Santiago to the north, Loja and Azuay to the west, and with Peru to the east and south...

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| Sangay

Sangay National Park

Sangay National Park is a national park located in the Morona Santiago, Chimborazo and Tungurahua provinces of Ecuador. The park contains two active volcanoes and ecosystems ranging from tropical rainforests to glaciers....

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Chimborazo Province

Chimborazo is a province in Ecuador, located in the central Ecuadorian Andes, containing a section of Sangay National Park. The capital is Riobamba. The province contains Chimborazo , Ecuador's highest mountain.- Cantons :...

and Tungurahua Province

Tungurahua Province

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| Sumaco Napo-Galeras

Sumaco Napo-Galeras National Park

Sumaco Napo-Galeras National Park is a protected area in Ecuador situated in the Napo Province, Orellana Province and Sucumbíos Province.- External links :* * *...

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Napo Province

, Orellana

Orellana Province

Orellana is an inland province of Ecuador. The capital is Puerto Francisco de Orellana . It was created on July 30, 1998, from part of Napo Province....

and Sucumbíos Province

Sucumbíos Province

Sucumbíos is a province in northeast Ecuador. The capital and largest city is Nueva Loja . It is the fifth largest province in the country, with an area of 18,009 km²...

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Yacurí National Park

Yacurí National Park is a 43,090.6 hectare National Park in Ecuador located on the border between the provinces Loja and Zamora. It is part of a larger Protected Forest of 73,300 hectacres. It was founded in 2009. The headwaters for both the Chinchipe-Mayo and Catamayo-Chira water basins are in...

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Loja Province

Loja Province is one of 24 provinces in Ecuador and shares its southern border on the west by El Oro Province, on the north by El Azuay, and on the east by Zamora-Chinchipe. Founded on its present site in 1548 by Captain Alonso de Mercadillo the site had been previously moved and rebuilt from La...

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Yasuni National Park

Yasuni National Park is in Ecuador with an area of 9,820 km2 between the Napo and Curaray rivers in Napo and Pastaza provinces in Amazonian Ecuador. The park is about 250 km from Quito and was designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1989...

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Napo Province

and Pastaza Province

Pastaza Province

Pastaza is a province in the Oriente of Ecuador located in the eastern jungle. The capital is Puyo, founded on May 12, 1899 and which boasts 25,800 inhabitants...

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Ecological reserves

There are 10 ecological reserves:

Arenillas Ecological Reserve
Arenillas Ecological Reserve
Arenillas Ecological Reserve is a protected area in Ecuador situated in the El Oro Province, in the Arenillas Canton and in the Huaquillas Canton....
Manglares Churute Ecological Reserve
Manglares Churute Ecological Reserve
Manglares Churute Ecological Reserve is located in the Guayas Province of Ecuador. The nature reserve is located from Guayaquil.-Fauna:The many lakes located in the park are great ways to view many aquatic birds and tortoises. Ducks, herons, woodpeckers, badgers, anteaters, shrimp and crabs...
Antisana Ecological Reserve
Antisana Ecological Reserve
Antisana Ecological Reserve is a protected area in Ecuador situated in the Napo Province, Quijos Canton and Archidona Canton.-Flora and fauna:Rare animals and plants found in or near the reserve include:...
Cotacachi Cayapas Ecological Reserve
Cotacachi Cayapas Ecological Reserve
Cotacachi Cayapas Reserve contains of land and is located in the Imbabura and Esmeraldas provinces of Ecuador from Quito. This nature reserve is partly rainforest. The park is mix of many biological zones but, the Andeean and Sub-tropical zones are most common. The symbol of the reserve is a...
El Angel Ecological Reserve
Illinizas Ecological Reserve
Illinizas Ecological Reserve
Illinizas Ecological Reserve is a protected area in Ecuador, located in the provinces of Cotopaxi and Pichincha. The reserve consists of 149,900 hectares, and lies 55 kilometers south of Quito....
Antisana Ecological Reserve
Antisana Ecological Reserve
Antisana Ecological Reserve is a protected area in Ecuador situated in the Napo Province, Quijos Canton and Archidona Canton.-Flora and fauna:Rare animals and plants found in or near the reserve include:...
Manglares Cayapas Mataje Ecological Reserve
Cofán-Bemejo Ecological Reserve
Mache-Chindul Ecological Reserve

Biological reserves

There are 4 biological reserves:

Cerro Plateado (Silver Hill) Biological Reserve
El Quimi Biological Reserve
El Cóndor Biological Reserve
Limoncocha National Biological Reserve
Limoncocha National Biological Reserve
This Nature reserve is located 229 miles from Quito, Ecuador. The reserve includes over 13,000 acres of land in the Shushufindi Canton, Sucumbíos Province.-Fauna:...

Wildlife refuges

There are 10 wildlife refuges:

Pasochoa Wildlife Refuges
Isla Santa Clara Wildlife Refuges
Isla Corazón y Fragata Wildlife Refuges
La Chiquita Wildlife Refuges
El Zarza Wildlife Refuges
El Pambilar Wildlife Refuges
Pacoche Wildlife Refuges
El Morro Swamps Wildlife Refuges
Rio Muisne Estuary Swampland Wildlife Refuges
Rio Esmereldas Estuary Swampland Wildlife Refuges

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