Caribou_River_Provincial_Park

Caribou River Provincial Park

Caribou River Provincial Park

Provincial park in Manitoba, Canada

Not to be confused with Cariboo River Provincial Park.

Caribou River Provincial Wilderness Park is a provincial park in extreme north-central Manitoba, Canada. It is the northernmost provincial park in Manitoba, and borders the southern Nunavut border.

Quick Facts Location, Nearest town ...
Caribou River Provincial Park

The park is 7,640 square kilometres (2,950 sq mi) in size,[1] and was designated a provincial park by the Government of Manitoba in 1995.[1]

The park is considered to be a Class Ib protected area under the IUCN protected area management categories.[2] It protects an area of the Taiga Shield Ecozone (CEC), including boreal forest, rivers and lakes, and low-lying wetlands forming extensive peatlands (bogs and fens). The park has a fairly rolling terrain with many rocky outcrops. Glacial till has been shaped into a mosaic of ridges and eskers, sinuous, rounded ridges deposited by during glaciation.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    A System Plan for Manitoba's Provincial Park (PDF). Government of Manitoba. March 1997. p. 16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 July 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  2. [2]
    "Caribou River Provincial Park". Protected Plant. United Nations Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Retrieved 1 July 2017.

59°33′49″N 96°39′40″W


Stub icon

This Manitoba location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub icon

This Canadian protected area related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Caribou_River_Provincial_Park, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.