Yellowstone+National+Park

= Yellowstone National Park =

==== The Greater Yellowstone Region covers 20 million acres of Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. A part of the National Park is located in south central Montana. It`s one of two Parks in Montana and one of the most impressive National Parks in the USA. In 1872 Yellowstone was founded as the first National Park. ====

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==== Interspaces of 45 to 120 minutes the geyser drops out fountains of 55 meter height. In the National Park is one of the biggest lakes in the USA, the Yellowstone Lake. It has over 136 square miles of surface and 130 feet deep. ====

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==== The different colors are due to bacteria which live in the hot spring. If the water is cooler the bacteria have another color then the bacteria in the hot water. So the geyser gets its wonderful color. ====

==== The Yellowstone Lower falls are the highest waterfalls in the Yellowstone Park.With 94 meters they are nearly double so high than the Niagara Falls.Closed to them are two other fall groups: The Upper falls in the South and the Crystal Falls in the West. ====

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Philine Letz