Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Parkis anational parkin the state ofCalifornia,U.S.A..Created on1 October1890,it was the second national park, afterYellowstone.It is aUNESCOWorld Heritage Site.[1]Yosemite covers 1,189 square miles (3,081 square kilometers) on theSierra Nevada.
Over 3.5 million people visit the park each year.[2]Despite the park's great size, most people spend time inYosemite Valley,one of the most beautiful places in the park. Almost 95 percent of the park iswilderness.Yosemite has manywaterfalls.The most famous of these is the world-famousYosemite Falls,which at 2,425 feet (739 m) tall, is one of the tallest waterfalls in the world.[3]
In the northern area of the park lies the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, a debateddamproject. The reservoir floods. Many people supportingenvironmentalismare trying to get the dam removed.[4]
The eighth major operating system ofOS XbyApple Inc.is named after the Yosemite National Park, calledOS X Yosemite.
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[change|change source]- ↑UNESCO,"Yosemite National Park";retrieved 2012-4-19.
- ↑"Yosemite-History and Culture".National Park Service.Retrieved2009-03-30.
- ↑"Yosemite Falls".World Waterfall Database. Archived fromthe originalon 2010-11-02.Retrieved2009-03-30.
- ↑"Hetch Hetchy Damming Scheme".Retrieved2009-03-30.
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