Sangay National Park Travel Guide
Travel to Sangay National Park - Diverse Natural Beauty
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Thanks to its outstanding natural beauty, snow-capped active volcanoes, and entire range of ecosystems ranging from tropical rainforests to glaciers, Sangay National Park is probably one of the best tourist destinations in Ecuador. The park was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983.
Sangay National Park is located in the Morona Santiago, Chimborazo, and Tungurahua provinces in the central Andes, 160 kilometres south of Quito. The park is the largest area of unaltered wild land in the country's eastern Cordilleras.
Sangay was originally gazetted as a National Wildlife Reserve in 1975 and its status changed to a National Park in 1979. In 1992, the area was almost doubled under by a 245 840 hectare extension to the south which is not part of the World Heritage Site.
The park comprises three geomorphologic zones namely the volcanic High Andes, eastern foothills, and alluvial fans. The highlands, of pre-Cretaceous metamorphic and plutonic rocks, rise from 2 000 to 5 000 metres and are dominated by the strato-volcanoes of Tungurahua (5 016 metres) and Altar (5 319 metres) in the northwest and Sangay (5 230 metres) in the west centre of the park.
Attractions in Sangay National Park
The park's isolation has encouraged the survival of indigenous species such as the mountain tapir and the Andean Condor.
Activities in Sangay National Park
They include wildlife viewing and walking.
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