Caribou River Provincial Park

Caribou River Provincial Park
IUCN category Ib (wilderness area)

Location	Manitoba, Canada
Nearest town	Churchill, Manitoba
Coordinates	59.33°N 96.39°W
Area	7,640 km² (2,950 sq mi)
Established	1995
Governing body	Government of Manitoba

Caribou River Provincial Wilderness Park is a provincial park in extreme north-central Manitoba, Canada. It is the northernmost provincial park in Manitoba, and borders the southern Nunavut border.

The park is 7,640 square kilometres (2,950 sq mi) in size,^[1] and was designated a provincial park by the Government of Manitoba in 1995.^[1]

The park is considered to be a Class Ib protected area under the IUCN protected area management categories.^[2] It protects an area of the Taiga Shield Ecozone (CEC), including boreal forest, rivers and lakes, and low-lying wetlands forming extensive peatlands (bogs and fens). The park has a fairly rolling terrain with many rocky outcrops. Glacial till has been shaped into a mosaic of ridges and eskers, sinuous, rounded ridges deposited by during glaciation.

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^ ^a ^b A System Plan for Manitoba's Provincial Park (PDF). Government of Manitoba. March 1997. p. 16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 July 2017. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
^ "Caribou River Provincial Park". Protected Plant. United Nations Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Retrieved 1 July 2017.

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59°33′49″N 96°39′40″W / 59.56361°N 96.66111°W / 59.56361; -96.66111

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