Lopé National Park
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Lopé National Park | |
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IUCN Category II (National Park) | |
Location: | Gabon |
Area: | 4910 km² |
Established: | 2002 |
Governing body: | Gabon National Parks |
Lopé National Park is a national park in central Gabon. Although the terrain is mostly rain forest, in the north the park contains the last remnants of grass savannas created in Central Africa during the last Ice Age, 15,000 years ago. It was the first protected area in Gabon when the Lopé-Okanda Wildlife Reserve was created in 1946.