Parks, protected areas, and geographic heritage sites

Mono silbador (Bolivia)

Mono silbador is the Bolivian Spanish name for the capuchin monkey Sapajus apella, also called martín or caí; a medium-sized, tool-using primate of Bolivian forests, Least Concern globally but Data Deficient in Bolivia.

Monongahela National Forest

Monongahela National Forest: West Virginia national forest established April 28, 1920 under the Weeks Act, about 921,000 acres, home of Spruce Knob–Seneca Rocks NRA and the 1973 clearcutting lawsuit that produced the National Forest Management Act.

Monster Village

Monster Village (妖怪村), formally Songlin Ting (松林町), is a free-entry, Japanese-style themed shopping district in Xitou, Nantou County, Taiwan, opened in 2009, known for monster legend theming.

Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment

Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment is a KUKA-arm motion-simulation dark ride at Universal Epic Universe's Dark Universe land, opened May 22, 2025, where Dr. Victoria Frankenstein's failed Dracula experiment unleashes 14 animated Universal Monsters.

Mont Nimba Biosphere Reserve

Mont Nimba Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site in Guinea designated 1980, covers 145,200 ha on the Guinea-Liberia-Côte d'Ivoire border, holds about 85% of Guinea's recorded biodiversity, and overlaps the Mount Nimba World Heritage Site, in danger since 1992 mainly from iron ore mining.

Mont Salève

Mont Salève is a 1,379 m mountain in Haute-Savoie, France, immediately south of Geneva, known as the mountain of the Genevans for its panoramic views.

Mont-Rivel

Mont-Rivel (Mont Rivel) is an 812 m hill at Champagnole and Équevillon in the Jura, France, with a Bronze Age fort, possible Gallic oppidum, 7-hectare Gallo-Roman agglomeration with two temples, medieval castle, and 1988 Monument historique listing.

Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay

Mont-Saint-Michel and its Bay: UNESCO World Heritage site (1979) in Normandy, France, a tidal island with a Gothic Benedictine abbey founded 966, La Merveille, and a megatidal bay with ~15 m spring tides.

Mont-St-Jean

Mont-St-Jean (Mont-Saint-Jean, Mont Jean) names several places: a Burgundian château village in Côte-d'Or, Wellington's 1815 Waterloo field-hospital farm in Belgium, a mining hill at Lepuix, a Sarthe commune, and the Saint-Jean chalcopyrite mine at Ollomont, Italy.

Mont-Tremblant National Park

Mont-Tremblant National Park (French: parc national du Mont-Tremblant) is a 1,510 km² park in Quebec's Laurentian highlands, created in 1895 as the first park in Quebec.

Mont-Viso Biosphere Reserve

Mont-Viso Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB transboundary site (designated 2013, transboundary 2014) in the Cottian Alps of France and Italy, managed by the Queyras and Monviso regional parks around the 3,841 m Monviso massif and Po headwaters.

Montagne des Singes

La Montagne des Singes (Monkey Mountain) is a wildlife park at Kintzheim, Alsace, opened 9 August 1969 by Gilbert de Turckheim and Jacques Renaud, with about 200 free-ranging Barbary macaques in a 24-hectare forest and research since 1972.

Montariolo

Montariolo, the Tumulo di Corvaro, is a 50 m wide pre-Roman collective burial mound at Borgorose, Rieti, used by the Equicoli from the 9th century BC, with 254-368 excavated tombs.

Montcaret

Montcaret: Gallo-Roman villa in Dordogne, France, also called Villa gallo-romaine de Montcaret, built 1st-5th century CE with large mosaics and baths, excavated 1921-1939 by Tauziac and Formigé, now a national monument.

Monte Abatone necropolis, Caere

Monte Abatone necropolis (Necropoli di Monte Abatone), the large Etruscan cemetery southeast of Caere/Cerveteri, Italy; chamber tombs and tumuli from the late 8th century B.C. to the Roman Empire; 641 tombs found by Lerici Foundation surveys; under renewed excavation since 2018.

Monte Aguzzo tumulus

Monte Aguzzo tumulus (Tumulo Chigi), an Etruscan princely burial mound near Formello in Veii's territory, about 60 m across, excavated 1882 by Lanciani; yielded the Chigi olpe and the Formello alphabetary.

Monte Albán

Monte Albán, Zapotec hilltop capital in Oaxaca, Mexico, founded around 500 BC, flourished to about 850 AD, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987 with Oaxaca's historic centre.

Monte Amiata

Monte Amiata (Mount Amiata; Mons ad Meata) is a 1,738 m dormant Pleistocene trachydacitic volcano in southern Tuscany, Italy, distinguished by entirely effusive silicic eruptions, a major historic mercury mining district, and the second largest Italian geothermal field.

Monte Calvo

Monte Calvo, Scandriglia (Rieti): hill in Sabina, Italy, site of the Roman Villa dei Bruttii Praesentes, owned by the family of empress Bruttia Crispina; excavated 1824 and 1998-2003, its statues now in Copenhagen's Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.

Monte Cassino

Monte Cassino: Benedictine abbey founded by St Benedict in 529 above Cassino, Italy, and the hill where four Allied battles against the Gustav Line were fought January-May 1944; the abbey was bombed February 15, 1944, captured by Polish II Corps on May 18, and rebuilt by 1964.

Monte d'Accoddi

Monte d'Accoddi, a prehistoric sanctuary near Sassari, Sardinia: a truncated-pyramid terrace altar (37 × 30 m, 42 m ramp) built in the Copper Age over an older Red Temple, abandoned before the Nuragic civilization.

Monte del Grano

Monte del Grano (Mausoleo di Monte del Grano) is Rome's third-largest tumulus mausoleum, in the Quadraro district near the via Tuscolana. Its Achilles sarcophagus yielded the Portland Vase provenance; brick stamps date it to Hadrian's era.

Monte Gentili

Monte Gentili (Monte Gentile), hill at Campofilone, Fermo, Marche, Italy, with an extensive Paleolithic lithic deposit of Levallois débitage industries, found from 1976 by Archeoclub surveys; distinct from a Roman-countryside Monte Gentile near Rome.

Monte Li Santi

Monte Li Santi is a tuff hill in the Treja valley, Lazio, Italy, part of the ancient Faliscan center of Narce, with an excavated sanctuary at its foot.

Monte Papalucio

Monte Papalucio, Oria (Apulia): Messapian sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone-Kore, mid-6th century BC to 470s BC, with Hellenistic phase; excavated by University of Salento under Francesco D'Andria.

Monte S. Martino

Monte S. Martino (Monte San Martino ai Campi) is an archaeological site at about 800 m on the Tenno-Riva del Garda border, Trentino: a Rhaetian Brandopferplatz cult site, then a Roman sanctuary, then a church dedicated to San Martino used until 1750.

Monte Stallone catacomb (Formello)

Monte Stallone catacomb (Catacomba di Monte Stallone), a small 4th-5th century Christian hypogeum at Formello near Rome, with five galleries and a cubiculum; found in the 1960s by the British School at Rome, managed by the Comune di Formello since 2020.

Monte Testaccio

Monte Testaccio (Monte dei Cocci), artificial hill in Rome's Emporium district made of roughly 53 million broken Baetican olive-oil amphorae, dumped in terraces from the Augustan era to A.D. 257.

Monte Torre Maggiore

Monte Torre Maggiore, also called Ara Maior or Monte Peracle, is the 1,120 m highest peak of the Monti Martani above Cesi, Terni, site of an Umbrian sanctuary founded in the 6th century BC and monumentalized with two Roman temples from the 3rd century BC.