Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks

Infobox World Heritage Site
WHS = Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks


State Party = CAN
Type = Natural
Criteria = vii, viii
ID = 304
Region = Europe and North America
Year = 1984
Session = 8th
Link = http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/304

The Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site is located in the Canadian Rockies. It consists of four national parks:

*Banff
*Jasper
*Kootenay
*Yoho

and three British Columbia provincial parks:

*Hamber Provincial Park
*Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park
*Mount Robson Provincial Park

The parks include mountains, glaciers and hot springs and the headwaters of major North American river systems including:
*North Saskatchewan River
*Athabasca River
*Columbia River
*Fraser River

The area is known for its natural beauty and biological diversity. It includes the Burgess shale site, a World Heritage Site in its own right from 1980 to 1990, when it was included in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks.

World Heritage Site

This area was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984 for the mountain landscapes containing mountain peaks, glaciers, lakes, waterfalls, canyons and limestone caves as well as fossils found here (see Burgess Shale).

ee also

*List of National Parks of Canada
*List of World Heritage Sites in the Americas

External links

* [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/304 Park page at UNESCO World Heritage Site]