Lucayan National Park is a
national park
A national park is a nature park, natural park in use for conservation (ethic), conservation purposes, created and protected by national governments. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state dec ...
in
Grand Bahama,
the Bahamas. The park was established in 1982 and has a land area of , and in total.
The park contains an underwater cave system with of charted tunnels.
Flora and fauna
Prior to the creation of the park, the area was the site of the discovery of the
Remipedia class of
crustaceans, in the late 1970s.
The park is also an
Important Bird Area
An Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA) is an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.
IBA was developed and sites are identified by BirdLife Int ...
, providing habitat for the
thick-billed vireo,
Bahama swallow
The Bahama swallow (''Tachycineta cyaneoviridis'') is an endangered swallow endemic to The Bahamas.
Description
This glossy ''Tachycineta'' swallow has a green head and back, blue upper wings, a black tail and wingtips, and a white belly and chi ...
and the
olive-capped warbler, among others.
References
National parks of the Bahamas
Grand Bahama
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