Butterfly World

This article is about the park in Florida, United States. For the parks in England, see Butterfly World, Isle of Wight and Butterfly World, Hertfordshire.
Butterfly World
Morpho peleides at Butterfly World
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26°16′06″N 80°10′17″W / 26.2684034°N 80.1713133°W / 26.2684034; -80.1713133
Date openedMarch 28, 1988[1]
LocationCoconut Creek, Florida, United States
Land area10 acres (4.0 hectares)[1]
No. of animals~20,000 (butterflies)[2]
No. of species50 (butterflies)[2]
Websitewww.butterflyworld.com

Butterfly World is located in Tradewinds Park in Coconut Creek, Florida. It opened in 1988, and it is the largest butterfly park in the world,[3] and the first park of its kind in the Western Hemisphere. The facility houses around 20,000 live butterflies.

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