Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve
World Heritage
Mexico
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The biosphere covers 56,259 hectares and is located in a rugged forested mountain range about 100 kilometers northwest of Mexico City. Every autumn, millions, even billions, of butterflies from all over North America return here to gather in small areas of the forest reserve, dyeing the trees orange and almost bending the branches under their collective weight. In the spring, the butterflies begin an eight-month migration all the way to eastern Canada and back, during which four consecutive generations of butterflies are born and die. How they find their way back to their overwintering sites remains a mystery.
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| country | Mexico |
| image | http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Santuario%20de%20la%20Mariposa%20Monarca%20%283088019191%29.jpg |
| instance of | biosphere reserve |
| located in the administrative territorial entity | Michoacán |
| executive body | Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve |
| ELSTAT geographical code | monarch-butterfly-biosphere-reserve |
| number of rooms | viaf-316432433 |
| office held by head of the organization | http://g.co/kg/m/047b8b1 |
| Commons category | Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve |
| has part | Château des Douaniers |
| has part | Cerro Altamirano |
| coordinate location | Point(-100.241666666 19.606388888) |
| area | 13551.552 |
| UNESCO Biosphere Reserve URL | http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/environment/ecological-sciences/biosphere-reserves/latin-america-and-the-caribbean/mexico/mariposa-monarca/ |
| object has role | Eliza Fraser |
| Atlas Obscura identifier | monarch-butterfly-biosphere-reserve |
| start time | 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z |
| official name | محمية المحيط الحيوي – الفراشة الملكة |
| official name | Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve |
| official name | Reserva de biosfera de la mariposa monarca |
| official name | Réserve de biosphère du papillon monarque |
| official name | オオカバマダラ生物圏保存地域 |
| official name | Monarchvlinder biosfeerreservaat |
| official name | Биосферный заповедник бабочки Монарх |
| area | 42707.498 |
| applies to part | buffer zone |