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Park designation categories in Latin America
Park designation categories in Latin America are national legal categories for protected areas that differ by country, with national park the only category common to all South American systems.
Peace Arch Park
Peace Arch Park: international park straddling the US-Canada border at Blaine, Washington and Surrey, British Columbia, jointly managed by Washington State Parks and BC Parks around the 67-foot Peace Arch dedicated in 1921 by Sam Hill to mark the Treaty of Ghent centennial.
Peak District
Peak District: upland area at the southern Pennines' tip, protected as the UK's first national park (17 April 1951), 555 sq mi across Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Staffordshire, and Cheshire, with Dark and White Peak landscapes, 13 million annual visitors.
Periyar National Park
Periyar National Park (350 km2) is the core of the 777 km2 Periyar Tiger Reserve at Thekkady, Kerala, in the Western Ghats. Known for tigers, elephants, Periyar Lake, and community ecotourism with former poachers.
Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park and Hin Nam No National Park
Transboundary UNESCO World Heritage Site (2025) joining Phong Nha-Ke Bang (Vietnam) and Hin Nam No (Laos) national parks; 217,447 ha of 400-million-year-old karst with over 220 km of caves, Son Doong, and Annamite endemic species.
Plitvice Lakes National Park
Plitvice Lakes National Park, or Nacionalni park, is Croatia's oldest national park and a UNESCO World Heritage site located in mountainous central Croatia, known for its 16 cascading lakes.
Poor Knights Islands
Poor Knights Islands (Tawhiti Rahi and Aorangi): volcanic islands 22 km off Northland, New Zealand, a nature reserve with no landing, ringed by New Zealand's second marine reserve (2,410 ha, 1981, fully no-take since 1998), tapu since 1822, famed for diving and subtropical fish.
Protected areas of Polynesia and Micronesia
The protected areas of Polynesia and Micronesia are the Pacific islands' national parks, reserves, and marine sanctuaries, covering 6% of the region's land and 19.9% of its waters.
Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park
Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park (PPSRNP), also called the Puerto Princesa Underground River, is a 22,202 ha UNESCO World Heritage park in Palawan, Philippines, with an 8.2 km tidal underground river flowing directly into the sea, inscribed in 1999 and named a New 7 Wonders of Nature site in 2011.
Pureora Forest Park
Pureora Forest Park, northern King Country, New Zealand: a 78,000 ha podocarp forest between the Rangitoto and Hauhungaroa ranges, saved from logging by 1978 protests, home to kōkako, rimu and the Pouakani Tōtara, and the Timber Trail.
Ranthambore National Park (रणथंभौर राष्ट्रीय उद्यान)
Ranthambore National Park (रणथंभौर राष्ट्रीय उद्यान), also spelled Ranthambhore, is a Rajasthan tiger reserve and former Jaipur royal game reserve, made a Project Tiger reserve in 1973 and a national park in 1980, with 57 tigers recorded in 2022.
Rosario and San Bernardo Corals National Natural Park
Parque Nacional Natural Corales del Rosario y de San Bernardo (PNN CRSB), a Colombian Caribbean marine national park declared 6 June 1977 and expanded in 1996 to about 120,000 ha, protecting the Rosario and San Bernardo archipelago reefs, seagrass beds, and mangroves near Cartagena.
Rwenzori Mountains National Park
Rwenzori Mountains National Park, Uganda's 99,600 ha World Heritage Site (1994) in the Rwenzori range, holds Mount Margherita (5,109 m), Africa's third highest peak, Albertine Rift endemic flora, and glaciers projected gone by 2030.
Sable Island
Sable Island (Sable Island National Park Reserve) is a 42-km crescent of shifting sand 290 km southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada's 43rd national park since 2013, known for wild horses, grey seals, and over 350 shipwrecks.
Saguenay Fjord National Park
Saguenay Fjord National Park (Parc national du Fjord-du-Saguenay) is a Sépaq provincial park in Quebec, created in 1983, protecting both banks of the 100 km Saguenay Fjord across 328.6 km2, with hiking, sea kayaking, via ferrata, and beluga-focused marine protections.
Sanjay Gandhi National Park
Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), formerly Borivali National Park, is a roughly 104 sq km urban protected forest in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, known for the 109 Kanheri Buddhist caves, high leopard density, and intense surrounding urban pressure.
Sariska Tiger Reserve
Sariska Tiger Reserve, Alwar district, Rajasthan (Aravalli hills), a 1,213 sq km Project Tiger reserve created in 1978. Its tigers were poached to local extinction by 2004, then reintroduced from Ranthambhore from June 2008, reaching 56 tigers by 2026.
Saxon Switzerland
Saxon Switzerland (Sächsische Schweiz) is the German sandstone hill country along the Elbe southeast of Dresden, named by painters Zingg and Graff; its 1990 national park covers 9,344 ha with 1,135 climbable sandstone peaks.
Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park, a TANAPA-managed park in northern Tanzania established in 1951 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1981, protects 1,476,300 ha of savannah and the Great Migration of about two million wildebeest, gazelles, and zebras.
Serra da Capivara National Park
Serra da Capivara National Park (Parque Nacional da Serra da Capivara), Piauí, Brazil: 1979 national park, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1991, with over 1,000 archaeological sites, rock art, and the disputed Pedra Furada pre-Clovis dates.
Silent Valley National Park
Silent Valley National Park, Kerala, India: a 237.52 sq km tropical evergreen rainforest in the Nilgiri Hills, saved from a hydroelectric dam by the Save Silent Valley movement, national park since 1984, core of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.
Simlipal National Park
Simlipal (Similipal) National Park, Mayurbhanj, Odisha, India: a 2,750 sq km tiger reserve, UNESCO biosphere reserve, and since April 2025 India's 107th National Park, known for wild melanistic black tigers and the Barehipani and Joranda waterfalls.
Southwest National Park
Southwest National Park, Tasmania's largest national park (618,190 ha, gazetted 1951, expanded 1968 and 1976), a remote wilderness in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area with the South Coast Track, Melaleuca, Lake Pedder, and Mount Anne.
Springbrook National Park
Springbrook National Park: 6,558 ha Queensland park in the Gold Coast hinterland, part of the Gondwana Rainforests World Heritage Area, with four sections, waterfalls, glow-worms, and the Natural Bridge arch.
Sturt National Park
Sturt National Park, NSW's largest western park at 325,329 ha in the arid Corner Country near Tibooburra, borders Queensland and South Australia, contains Ramsar-listed Lake Pinaroo and the Dingo Fence, and hosts the Wild Deserts mammal reintroduction project.
Sundarbans National Park (সুন্দরবন জাতীয় উদ্যান)
Sundarbans National Park (সুন্দরবন জাতীয় উদ্যান), West Bengal, India: UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987 in the world's largest mangrove forest, core of the Sundarban Tiger Reserve, home of swimming Bengal tigers.
Sydney Harbour National Park
Sydney Harbour National Park: a just-under-400-hectare NSW national park of harbour foreshores, headlands and islands, protecting Aboriginal sites, Fort Denison, the Quarantine Station, and threatened bandicoots and little penguins.
Taï National Park
Taï National Park (Parc national de Taï), southwest Côte d'Ivoire near the Liberian border: a 508,186 ha primary tropical rainforest, national park since 1972, World Heritage site since 1982 and Biosphere Reserve since 1977, home to pygmy hippopotamus, 11 monkey species, and Taï chimpanzees.
Taroko National Park (太鲁阁国家公园)
Taroko National Park (太魯閣國家公園), Taiwan national park established November 28, 1986; 92,000 hectares across Hualien, Taichung, Nantou; marble Taroko Gorge carved by the Liwu River; largely closed and phased-reopening after the April 3, 2024 earthquake.
Tasman National Park
Tasman National Park, a national park in south-eastern Tasmania proclaimed in 1999, protects the Tasman and Forestier peninsulas, Australia's highest sea cliffs (300 m), the Three Capes Track, and a third of Tasmania's plant species.