Écrins National Park
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Olan Summit (3564 meters) | ||
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Location: | Hautes-Alpes , Isere , France | |
Surface: | 270,200 ha | |
Founding: | March 27, 1973 | |
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Website of the Domaine de Charance National Park F-05000 Gap |
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National park with peaks, cities and rivers |
The Écrins National Park ( French : Parc National des Écrins ) covers part of the Dauphiné Alps ( Provencal Alps- Hautes-Alpes ) in south-east France . Bigger cities in the area are Gap (Hautes-Alpes) , Grenoble and Briançon .
The national park was founded in 1973 and has an area of approximately 1,786 square kilometers. A core zone of 918 square kilometers is particularly protected. The center of the national park is the Pelvoux massif, with the Barre des Écrins, the southernmost four-thousand-meter peak in the Alps .
Nature and environmental protection
In 1990 the National Park was awarded the European Diploma for Protected Areas by the Council of Europe . The Écrins National Park has been on France's list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 2002 .
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See also
Web links
Commons : Écrins National Park - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Official website of the national park
- Tour descriptions for the Écrins National Park
- World Database on Protected Areas - Écrins National Park (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Parc national des Écrins. UNESCO World Heritage Center, February 1, 2002, accessed January 15, 2018 (French).