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Monterey Bay in Northern California is one of the most spectacular birding and wildlife venues in North America. Birders will see Golden Eagles, California Condors, Bushtits, Townsend's Warblers, Snowy Plovers and flocks of thousands of Sooty Shearwaters. Few places can match the diversity of habitats as Monterey Bay.
The Monterey Canyon, one of the largest underwate...
Located just steps away from the ocean and Santa Cruz Wharf, the center features state-of-the art exhibits and interactive displays highlighting the sanctuary and its incredible underwater environment. Visitors can explore the sanctuary's remarkable marine environment as well as their personal role in protecting one of our nation's underwater treasures.
The Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS) is a federally protected marine area offshore of California's Big Sur and central coast in the United States. It is the largest US national marine sanctuary and has a shoreline length of 276 miles (444 km) stretching from just north of the Golden Gate Bridge at San Francisco to Cambria in San Luis Obispo County. Suppo...
Monterey Square was laid out in 1847 and commemorates the Battle of Monterrey (1846), in which American forces under General Zachary Taylor captured the city of Monterrey during the Mexican–American War. (The correct spelling in reference to the square is "Monterey", with a single r.) In the center of the square is an 1853 monument honoring General Casimir Pulas...
Monterey State Historic Park is a historic state park in Monterey, California. It includes part or all of the Monterey Old Town Historic District, a historic district that includes 17 contributing buildings and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970. The grounds include California's first theatre, and the Monterey Custom House, where the American flag was f...
Monte San Giorgio is a pyramid-shaped wooded mountain located in the south of canton Ticino in Switzerland. Monte San Giorgio became a UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2003, because it "is the single best known record of marine life in the Triassic period, and records important remains of life on land as well. The property has produced diverse and numerous fossils, man...
Monte Sano State Park is a publicly owned recreation area and mountaintop retreat encompassing 2,140 acres (870 ha) on the eastern portion of the top and slopes of Monte Sano Mountain on the east side of Huntsville, Alabama. The state park has 1930s-era, Civilian Conservation Corps–built rustic cottages, hiking trails and picnic areas with scenic overlooks, and ...
Monte or Pico de Santo António is a mountain in the southwestern part of the island Boa Vista in Cape Verde. At 379 m elevation, it is the island's second highest point. It is located just next to Rocha Estância and west of Monte Estância, one of three orographic formations on an island, a morphological fortress with a semicircular base elevation ab...
The Montesinho Natural Park (Portuguese:Parque Natural de Montesinho) is a protected area located in the municipalities of Vinhais and Bragança, northeastern Portugal. Sections of the southern slopes of the Serra da Coroa (Sierra de la Culebra) fall within the park.
Its biodiversity includes the Iberian wolf, roe deer, wild boar, Iberian lynx, common genet, red...
Monte Urpinu Park, the most wooded, is a low hill covered by a pine and evergreen oak forest with a dense Mediterranean maquis of mastic, juniper, Kermes oak, wild olive and tree spurge. It extends for about 25 hectares (62 acres).
Monteverde, Costa Rica is a small town in Puntarenas, Costa Rica. Located in the Cordillera de Tilarán, roughly a four hour drive from the Central Valley of Costa Rica, Monteverde is considered a major ecotourism destination in Costa Rica. The area is perhaps best known for the Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde and numerous other reserves, which...
Monte Verde (Portuguese meaning "green mountain") is the tallest mountain in the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde. The mountain is located 8 km (5 mi) east of the city of Mindelo, the island's main city and is 750 m tall. The mountain is part of a natural park. It is an example of a sub-humid ecosystem. Of the 93 inventoried species of flora, 17 are on the lis...
Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge is a United States National Wildlife Refuge located in southern Colorado. The refuge serves as a stopover point for cranes during their northward and southward migrations each year. The birds using the Refuge nest primarily in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming and spend winters in New Mexico, Arizona, and Mexico. However, some cranes that...
Montezuma Castle National Monument, located near Camp Verde, Arizona, in the Southwestern United States, features well-preserved cliff-dwellings. They were built and used by the Pre-Columbian Sinaguapeople, northern cousins of the Hohokam, around 700 AD. Several Hopi clans trace their roots to immigrants from the Montezuma Castle/Beaver Creek area. Clan members period...