Lower U Minh National Park (Vietnamese

Vietnamese language

Vietnamese is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of 86% of Vietnam's population, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. It is also spoken as a second language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam...

: Vườn quốc gia U Minh Hạ) is a national park of Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

. The park is located in Ca Mau Province

Ca Mau Province

Cà Mau is a province of Vietnam, named after its capital city. It is located in the Mekong Delta of southern Vietnam, and is the southernmost of Vietnam's 58 provinces...

 (communes

Communes of Vietnam

In Vietnam, there are three kinds of third-level administrative subdivisions: the rural commune , the commune-level town ，and the ward . In Vietnam a rural commune is referred to as a xã and urban communes are referred to as Thị trấn, urban townships...

 Khánh Lâm

Khánh Lâm

Khánh Lâm is a commune and village in U Minh District, Ca Mau Province, in Vietnam....

, Khanh An

Khánh An, U Minh

Khánh An is a commune in U Minh District, Ca Mau Province, southern Vietnam.The commune is 14 km by road northwest of the provincial capital, city of Ca Mau. The commune has an area of 155.98 km2, population 14,017 inhabitants . The commune contains 10 villages .The commune is adjacent to...

 of U Minh District and communes of Trần Hợi

Trần Hợi

Trần Hợi is a commune and village in Trần Văn Thời District, Ca Mau Province, in Vietnam....

, Khánh Bình Tây Bắc

Khánh Bình Tây Bắc

Khánh Bình Tây Bắc is a commune and village in Trần Văn Thời District, Ca Mau Province, in Vietnam....

 of Trần Văn Thời District, Ca Mau Province

Ca Mau Province

Cà Mau is a province of Vietnam, named after its capital city. It is located in the Mekong Delta of southern Vietnam, and is the southernmost of Vietnam's 58 provinces...

. This national park has an area of 82.86 square kilometers. This national park was established on 20 January 2006 to protect low wetland ecosystem in the region. Fauna and flora found here include mangrove

Mangrove

Mangroves are various kinds of trees up to medium height and shrubs that grow in saline coastal sediment habitats in the tropics and subtropics – mainly between latitudes N and S...

, snake

Snake

Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales...

, turtle

Turtle

Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines , characterised by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs that acts as a shield...

, bird

Bird

Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...

, amphibian

Amphibian

Amphibians , are a class of vertebrate animals including animals such as toads, frogs, caecilians, and salamanders. They are characterized as non-amniote ectothermic tetrapods...

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