UNESCO World Heritage Sites-Visit 5 in Alberta

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The UNESCO list of world cultural heritage than 830 Properties worldwide with outstanding universal value Value are 13 of them in Canada, and 5 those found in Alberta.

1. Head-Smashed-In Buffalo.

For thousands of years the indigenous peoples of North America used the Buffalo to their lives Needs, meat, clothing, shelter, tools and fire. They stormed herds over large rocks and beef them on the ground where they had to camps. The Skeletal remains, in places 30 meters deep are still there. In stock battles trimmings Caches and cooking facilities on the layers of bone. Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is known around the world a remarkable testimony of prehistoric life.

2. Dinosaur Provincial Park

The first time we have traveled through Alberta, Landscape suddenly changed. We felt that we literally landed on the moon. A feeling shared by many. Strange land formations rise on all sides, sculpted by wind and water in a bath of sunshine in the beautiful forms Terracotta, bronze and amber. A trip to Dinosaur Provincial Park is a 75000000 year journey through time. This region was then a subtropical paradise populated by Turtles, crocodiles and sharks. Here dinosaurs once Hunting and mating, and eventually met their demise, Leaving an amazingly rich fossil bones and to save us to discover today. Dinosaur Provincial Park – a world World Heritage Site than anywhere else on earth!

3 Wood Buffalo National Park

With 44 807 square kilometers, is Canada‘s Wood Buffalo largest national park. It was established in 1922 to Protect the last herds of bison in North America Canada. Today, protecting Canada‘s northern boreal Plains. The most important freedom, self-bison Herds in the world, the only nesting site the whooping crane, the biological diversity Peace-Athabasca Delta, extensive salt marshes, and some the finest examples of gypsum karst topography North America.

Four Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks

Seven parks in the Canadian Rocky Mountains are Best known mountain landscapes on earth. More than nine Million people annually visit the seven obtained along the Alberta-British Columbia. There are four National Parks – Banff, Jasper, Yoho and Kootenay. You are responsible for most of the conservation 22 990
Square kilometers. Adjacent to them, three Britons Columbia Provincial Parks – Mount Robson, Mount Assiniboine and Hamber. The park has an abundance of natural wonders: jagged peaks and conifer slopes, silty glacial streams and turquoise lakes, the great Columbia Icefield and Castle Guard cave complex. The Burgess Shale in Yoho,
con ains one of the most important discoveries in the world soft body, the Middle Cambrian-age marine fossils about 150 species, some of which have no similarity known animals.

5 Park Waterton-Glacier International Peace

The strong increase of Rocky Prairie plain Twin Parks, the place “where Mountains meet the prairie. “Nature has provided many worthy of protection is high mountains and deep Canyons, meadows and wooded areas, deep Trough-glacial lakes and rivers that feed three oceans. ountain goats, bighorn sheep, – the variety of wildlife Coyotes, grizzly bears, dozens of birds and famous “international” herd of elk that migrate
E ch year, between mountain habitat in summer and glacier Prairie winter ranges in Waterton. The highlight of Waterton’s sparkling chain of lakes is Upper Waterton Lake, the international, the deepest lake in the Canadian Rockies. In 1932 the park was connected with Montana Glacier National Park on the form Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park – a world the first time.

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