Montaña Santa Bárbara National Park (previously named Santa Bárbara 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 ...

Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...

. It was established on 1 January 1987 and covers an area of 121.3 square kilometres. It has an altitude of 2,777 metres. Montaña de Santa Bárbara is an isolated

karst Karst is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum. It is characterized by underground drainage systems with sinkholes and caves. It has also been documented for more weathering-resistant ro ...

ic massif. It is bounded on the north by the Ulúa-Chamelecón Plain, and on the west by

Lake Yojoa Lake Yojoa is the largest lake in Honduras with a surface area of 79 square kilometers (30.50 mi²) and an average depth of 15 meters (50 ft). At an altitude of 700 meters (2,300 ft), it lies in a depression formed by v ...

. There are

tropical dry forests The tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forest is a habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature and is located at tropical and subtropical latitudes. Though these forests occur in climates that are warm year-round, and may receive ...

in the lowlands, moist forests at mid elevations, and montane forests and cloud forests at higher elevations.Townsend, J. H. (2014). Characterizing the Chortís Block Biogeographic Province: geological, physiographic, and ecological associations and herpetofaunal diversity. ''Mesoamerican Herpetology'', 1(2), 204-252. Its peak can be reached from the southeast side, ascending from the village of Los Andes.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Montana Santa Barbara National Park National parks of Honduras Protected areas established in 1987 Central American Atlantic moist forests Central American dry forests Central American montane forests