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Geography and Location

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• 1890 establishments (23)
• IUCN Category Ib (27)
• Madera County, California (10)
• Mariposa County, California (8)
• National parks in California (8)
• National parks of the United States (58)
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Encyclopedia: Yosemite National Park

For other uses, see Yosemite (disambiguation).

Yosemite is one of the largest and least fragmented habitat blocks in the Sierra Nevada, and the park supports a diversity of plants and animals. The park has an elevation range from 2,000 to 13,114 feet (600 to 4,000 m) and contains five major vegetation zones: chaparral/oak woodland, lower montane, upper montane, subalpine, and alpine. Of California's 7,000 plant species, about 50% occur in the Sierra Nevada and more than 20% within Yosemite. There is suitable habitat or documented records for more than 160 rare plants in the park, with rare local geologic formations and unique soils characterizing the restricted ranges many of these plants occupy.^[2]

Translations

How to say "Yosemite National Park" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	優勝美地國家公園
	(Japanese)	ヨセミテ国立公園
	(German)	Yosemite-Nationalpark
	(Spanish)	Parque Nacional de Yosemite
	(French)	Parc national de Yosemite
	(Italian)	Parco nazionale di Yosemite

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Mariposa Grove

Giant Sequoia in the Mariposa Grove, Yosemite Mariposa Grove is a sequoia grove located near Wawona, California in the southernmost part of Yosemite National Park. It is the largest grove of... establishment of Yosemite National Park...

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Nevada Fall

Nevada Fall Nevada Fall is a 594 ft (181 m) high waterfall on Merced River in Yosemite National Park, California. Together with 317 ft (97 m) high Vernal Fall which starts at the bottom of Nevada Fall, it forms a cascade in which Merced River flows down to Yosemite Valley. This cascade...

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Dana

Dana can mean: The Celtic mother goddess, see Danu An Irish singer, winner of the 1970 Eurovision Song Contest: see Dana (singer); not to be confused with Dana International, who won the 1998 contest Mount Dana is a peak in Yosemite National Park, USA Richard Henry Dana, Jr. was an American...

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John Muir Trail

runs through Yosemite National Park, Kings Canyon National Park, Sequoia National Park, Inyo National Forest (including the John Muir and Ansel Adams wilderness areas), and Devils Postpile National... km) from the Yosemite Valley to Mount Whitney. Much of the trail serves as a section of the longer...

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Lembert Dome

Lembert Dome is a granite dome in Yosemite National Park, California, USA. It is visible from...

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Little Walker River

watershed of Walker Lake. It rises from snowmelt in northwestern Mono County, north of Yosemite National Park in the Toyabie National Forest. It flows north, joining the West Walker River form the south...

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Silver Strand Falls

Silver Strand Falls drops 574 feet (175m) along Meadow Brook, at the western end of Yosemite Valley, within Yosemite National Park. The falls are commonly thought to drop 1170 feet (356m), this is incorrect. The name Widow's Tears had been applied to Silver Strand Falls in the past, but seasonal...

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Bridalveil Fall (Yosemite)

This article is about Bridalveil Fall in Yosemite. For waterfalls named 'Bridal Veil', see Bridal Veil Falls. Bridalveil Fall is one of the most prominent waterfalls in the Yosemite Valley in California, seen yearly by millions of visitors to Yosemite National Park. It is approximately 227 m tall...

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Cathedral Range

The Cathedral Range is a range of mountains immediately to the South of Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park, USA. It is a beautiful range, sculpted by glaciers out of granite. The tops of the peaks in the range were above the level of the highest glaciation, and are therefore uneroded and...

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Dana Meadows

eastern entrance to Yosemite National Park, at the foot of Mount Dana, not far from Tuolumne Meadows... springtime in these meadows, but snow can come at any time, especially after Labor Day. Before Yosemite became a park, Basque sheepherders would graze their flocks here, and in other areas of the Sierra...

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