Kalkalpen National Park | |
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Location | Northern Limestone Alps, Upper Austria, Austria |
Coordinates | 47°47′24″N 14°22′25″E / 47.79000°N 14.37361°E |
Area | 20,825 hectares (51,460 acres) |
Established | 25 July 1997 |
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Designated | 2 February 2004 |
Reference no. | 1371[1] |
Kalkalpen National Park (in English literally Limestone Alps National Park) is a national park within the Northern Limestone Alps mountain range, located in the state of Upper Austria, Austria.[2] The park was established in 1997. The ancient beech forests within the national park were added to the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as Ancient and Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe, because of their undisturbed nature and testimony to the ecological history of Europe since the Last Glacial Period.[3]