Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Humedal Caribe Noreste

Humedal Caribe Noreste, Ramsar site 811, is a 75,310-hectare wetland on Costa Rica's northeast Caribbean coast, designated 20 March 1996, spanning Tortuguero National Park, Barra del Colorado, and the Corredor Fronterizo Norte refuges.

Humedal La Sierra de Guadalupe

Humedal La Sierra de Guadalupe, a Ramsar wetland site (no. 1815) in Mulegé municipality, Baja California Sur, Mexico; designated 2 February 2008, covering 348,087 hectares.

Humedal Laguna Melincué

Humedal Laguna Melincué (Ramsar site 1785) is a 92,000-hectare endorheic wetland around shallow, brackish Laguna Melincué in southern Santa Fe, Argentina, designated 24 July 2008 and a key wintering site for the rare Andean flamingo.

Humedal Los Comondú

Humedal Los Comondú, Ramsar site no. 1761 in Baja California Sur, Mexico, designated 2 February 2008; a 460,959 ha Sierra La Giganta wetland of three large oases, migratory birds, and endemic species.

Humka Zako

Хумка Зако (Humka Čako, Čako halom) is a 107-meter burial mound near Trešnjevac, Kanjiža, Serbia, site of a 1686 battle before Senta, with an 1881 cross and a 2001 memorial complex.

Hunchun Water Park

珲春水上公园 (Hunchun Water Park, Russian: Парк развлечений Восток) is a theme park in Yanbian, Jilin, China, at 42.84142°N, 130.36448°E, near the Vostok Amusement Island water world and Matryoshka Theater. Distinct from parks of the same name in Yichun and Tianjin.

Hundred Islands National Park

Hundred Islands National Park (HINP): 123 coral islands in Alaminos City, Pangasinan, Philippines, along Lingayen Gulf. Established by Quezon's Proclamation No. 667 in 1940; about 1,860 hectares; managed by Alaminos City since 2005.

Hung-i Kamalvand

Hung-i Kamalvand (Hong-e Kamalvand) is a Parthian rock relief near Izeh, Khuzestan, Iran, showing a standing figure facing a horseman, with an Elymaean inscription reading 'Phraates the priest, son of Kamnaskires', dated c. AD 100.

Hungunverro

Hungunverro was a Roman mutatio, or horse-change station, on the road between Auch and Toulouse in southwestern Gaul, recorded in the fourth-century Bordeaux Itinerary; its exact site is unknown.

Huntcliff

Huntcliff (Hunt Cliff), high sea cliff at Saltburn, Teesside, England; wildlife reserve of Tees Valley Wildlife Trust and site of a late Roman signal station (c. AD 367-390), excavated 1911-12 and since lost to coastal erosion.

Hunting Island State Park

Hunting Island State Park is a 5,000-acre barrier-island park near Beaufort, South Carolina, the state's most popular park, with five miles of beach, the 1875 cast-iron Hunting Island Lighthouse, and severe coastal erosion.

Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania

Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania: unincorporated Montgomery County suburb around ZIP 19006, spanning Abington and Lower Moreland townships along Pennypack Creek; about 21,000-23,400 residents, median household income $128,295.

Huntington Beach State Park

Huntington Beach State Park is a 2,500-acre South Carolina state park in Murrells Inlet, south of Myrtle Beach, combining Atlantic beach, salt marsh, and the historic Moorish home Atalaya.

Hurezi Monastery

Hurezi (Horezu) Monastery, Mănăstirea Hurezi, is a Romanian Orthodox monastic complex in Vâlcea County, Wallachia, founded in 1690 by Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu, the masterpiece of Brancovan style, UNESCO-listed since 1993.

Hurulu Biosphere Reserve

Hurulu Biosphere Reserve, Sri Lanka's first UNESCO MAB reserve (1977), protects tropical dry evergreen forest in the North Central Province; extended in 2014 to 69,641 ha with elephant, leopard, and junglefowl habitat.

Hustai Nuruu Biosphere Reserve

Hustai Nuruu Biosphere Reserve, also called Hustain Nuruu, a UNESCO MAB site since 2002 in central Mongolia around Hustai National Park, protects steppe ecosystems and hosts the world's largest wild Przewalski's horse population, reintroduced from 1992.

Hwajeong Folk Village

Hwajeong Folk Village (화정민속촌) is a small theme park in Waegban-eup, Chilgok County, North Gyeongsang, South Korea, on Nambug 3-gil near Waegban station and Camp Carroll; distinct from the Yongin Korean Folk Village and hwajeon fire-field villages.

Hwange National Park

Hwange National Park (formerly Wankie), Zimbabwe's largest park at 14,650 km² in the northwest, holds about 45,000 elephants and depends on over 100 solar-powered boreholes for dry-season water.

Hwangtosgil Folk Village

Hwangtosgil Folk Village (황톳길민속촌) is a small theme park and tourist attraction in Uichang-gu, Changwon, South Gyeongsang, South Korea, near Myeonggok Girls' Middle School and Changwon Civic Stadium.

Hwaseong Fortress

Hwaseong Fortress (華城), Suwon's Joseon-dynasty walled fortress built 1794-1796 by King Jeongjo for his father Crown Prince Sado's tomb; 5.74 km walls, 48 structures, UNESCO World Heritage since 1997.

Hy-Vee Arena

Hy-Vee Arena, formerly Kemper Arena, is a multi-level amateur sports complex in Kansas City's West Bottoms, in Helmut Jahn's 1974 suspended-truss arena, National Register-listed in 2016 and reopened in 2018 with 12 courts and a 350-meter track.

Hydata Lesitana

Hydata Lesitana (Aquae Lesitanae, Terme di San Saturnino): Roman thermal station at Benetutti, Sardinia, named by Ptolemy; imperial-age circular stepped pool, Asclepius shrine, waters still used for free bathing.

Hyde Park, London

Hyde Park, London: a 350-acre Royal Park in Westminster, acquired by Henry VIII in 1536, opened to the public in 1637, home to the Serpentine, Speaker's Corner, the 1851 Great Exhibition site and major events like Winter Wonderland.

Hyde Park, Sydney

Hyde Park, Sydney: Australia's oldest public parkland, named by Governor Macquarie on 6 October 1810 on land reserved as a common in 1792. A 16-hectare CBD park divided by Park Street, home to the Anzac Memorial, Archibald Fountain, and Emden Gun, reshaped after City Circle railway excavation and Norman Weekes's 1926 design.

Hydrangea Garden

A hydrangea garden (ajisai-en) is a garden, park, or temple ground planted with hydrangeas, especially bigleaf hydrangea, as a seasonal flower attraction, mainly in Japan.

Hydreuma to epi tou Paneiou

Hydreuma to epi tou Paneiou (el-Kanais, الكنيس), a fortified Ptolemaic watering station and Pan/Min sanctuary (Paneion) in Egypt's Eastern Desert on the Edfu-Berenike road, 47.4 km from Edfu, beside Seti I's rock temple.

Hyeonsu Garden

Hyeonsu Garden (현수동산) is a garden and recreation area in Dunpo-myeon, Asan-si, South Chungcheong, South Korea, at 36.91939°N, 127.06124°E, near Public Garden and the Dunpo Public Sports Center.

Hymettos

Hymettos (Υμηττός, Hymettus), Attic mountain southeast of Athens, 1,026 m, famed for honey and bluish marble, summit cult of Zeus, Hellenistic Hymettos Camp fort, excavated by Blegen and Young.

Hyogo prefectural flower center

Hyogo Prefectural Flower Center (兵庫県立フラワーセンター) is a 46-hectare prefectural botanical garden in Kasai, Hyogo, Japan, opened 1976, with about 4,500 flower kinds and leading carnivorous plant and Streptocarpus National Collections.