Sierra Nevada National Park (Mérida, Venezuela)

The Sierra Nevada National Park (PNSN) is a national park of Venezuela located between the states of Merida and Barinas in the west of the country. Founded on May 2, 1952 by decree 393 of President Germán Suárez Flamerich, with the objective of protecting the Sierra Nevada de Mérida within the Andean mountain range.

With its creation, it became the second National Park decreed, after the Henri Pittier National Park, which would begin the history of Venezuela's national parks 15 years earlier.

The Sierra Nevada is an area of ​​great ecological importance for Venezuela, as it ensures the preservation of the highest ecosystem in the country, where the highest mountain ranges of the Venezuelan Andes are located, including Pico Bolívar, the highest geographical feature. of Venezuela with 5007 ms. n. m.