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  • Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks

  • Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks

    The Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks consist of an array of national and provincial parks in Alberta and British Columbia. They are made up of seven contiguous parks, including four national parks (Banff, Jasper, Kootenay, and Yoho) and three British Columbia provincial parks (the Humber, Mount Assiniboine, and Mount Robson).
    These seven parks in the Canadian Rockies include the headwaters of major North American river systems including the North Saskatchewan, Athabasca, Columbia, and Fraser rivers. Known for its natural environment and biodiversity, the area has outstanding natural beauty, attracting millions of people every year.
    Among the most important natural features in the parks there are tall mountain peaks, ice fields, glaciers, alpine tundra, lakes, waterfalls, huge karst cave systems, thermal springs, and deeply incised canyons, in addition to the fossils of the Burgess Shale, which is one of the earliest fossil beds containing soft-part imprints from about 508 million years ago.
    Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks was inscribed in 1984 in the UNESCO World Heritage List in Canada.
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    Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks

    Date of Inscription

    1984