Everglades National Park Quick Facts

Everglades National Park is:

• Largest continuous stand of sawgrass prairie in North America.
• Predominant water recharge area for all of South Florida through the Biscayne aquifer.
• A World Heritage Site, a Biosphere Reserve, a Wetland of International Significance, and an Outstanding Florida Water.
• Home of thirteen endangered and ten threatened species.
• Largest mangrove ecosystem in the western hemisphere.
• Largest designated wilderness in the eastern U.S.
• Most significant breeding grounds for tropical wading birds in North America.
• Site of significant ethnographic resources.
• Site of a nationally significant estuarine complex in Florida Bay.
• Only subtropical preserve on the North American continent.
• Major "edge" area of the northern and southern limits for many species creating a unique mingling of diverse temperate and subtropical species