Wakasa Wan Quasi National Park

	Wakasa Wan Quasi National Park IUCN Category V - Protected Landscape / Seascape
location	Fukui Prefecture and Kyoto Prefecture , Japan
surface	191.95 km²
WDPA ID	3096
Geographical location	35 ° 31 ' N , 135 ° 40' E Coordinates: 35 ° 30 '36 " N , 135 ° 40' 12" E
Setup date	June 1, 1955
administration	Fukui Prefecture and Kyoto Prefecture

The Wakasa-Wan Quasi National Park ( Japanese 若狭湾国定公園 Wakasa-wan Kokutei Kōen ) is one of over 50 quasi-national parks in Japan. It lies between the mouths of the Shō-gawa ( 笙の川 ) rivers near Tsuruga in Fukui Prefecture and the Yura-gawa ( 由良川 ) near Maizuru in Kyoto Prefecture . Therefore, both prefectures of Fukui and Kyoto are responsible for the administration of the park, which was founded on June 1, 1955. Since the 19,195 hectare park stretches along the coastline of Wakasa Bay - a typical Riyal coast - it was designated a quasi-national park. In 2007, the part from the Yura-gawa to the former Tango Province was spun off and made a separate quasi-national park, the Tango-Amanohashidate-Ōeyama-Quasi-National Park . With the IUCN Category V, the park area is classified as a Protected Landscape / Protected Marine Area . The Wakasa Bay is also protected by the Ramsar Convention .

Web links

Commons : Wakasawan Quasi-National Park - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

若狭湾国定公園 . Kyoto Prefecture,accessed on 20 December 2019(in Japanese, with many illustrations).

↑ ^a ^b 若狭湾国定公園 . In: ブリタニカ国際大百科事典小項目事典 et alii at kotobank.jp. Retrieved December 20, 2019 (Japanese).