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Carlsbad Caverns National Park

Carlsbad Caverns National Park is a national park and a UNESCO World Heritage Site that is located near , . It is most famous for the "Big Cave" and its Big Room, at one time considered the largest natural underground chamber in the world.
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  • Type: Park
  • Description: United States National Park in the Guadalupe Mountains in southeastern New Mexico
  • Also known as: “Carlsbad Caverns” and “CAVE”
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Photo: S23678, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bat Flight Amphitheater and Carlsbad Cavern.

Theater building
Photo: Maveric149, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Caverns Historic District comprises the central developed area of Carlsbad Caverns National Park. The complex was built between the early 1920s and 1942, initially in Pueblo Revival style, and later in New Mexico Territorial Revival style in the area around the natural entrance to Carlsbad Caverns.

Cave
Photo: Maveric149, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Carlsbad Caverns National Park

Latitude
32.1754° or 32° 10′ 31″ north
Longitude
-104.4438° or 104° 26′ 38″ west
Elevation
4,409 feet (1,344 metres)
Open location code
854Q5HG4+5F
Geo­Names ID
5460461
Wiki­data ID
Q273195
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Carlsbad Caverns National Park” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “حديقة كهوف كارلسباد الوطنية”
  • Armenian: “Կարլսբադի քարանձավներ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Karlsbad Mağaraları Milli Parkı”
  • Balinese: “Taman Nasional Goa Carlsbad”
  • Basque: “Carlsbad Leizeetako Parke Nazionala”
  • Belarusian: “Карлсбадскія пячоры, нацыянальны парк”
  • Belarusian: “Нацыянальны парк Карлсбадскія пячоры”
  • Bulgarian: “Пещери Карлсбад”
  • Bulgarian: “Пещерите Карлсбад”
  • Catalan: “Bat Cave”
  • Catalan: “Carlsbad Caverns National Park”
  • Catalan: “Parc Nacional de las Coves de Carlsbad”
  • Catalan: “Parc Nacional de les Cavernes de Carlsbad”
  • Catalan: “Parc Nacional de les Coves de Carlsbad”
  • Cebuano: “Carlsbad Caverns National Park”
  • Chinese: “卡尔斯巴德洞窟国家公园”
  • Chinese: “卡爾斯巴德洞窟國家公園”
  • Croatian: “Nacionalni park Carlsbad Caverns”
  • Czech: “Carlsbad Cave”
  • Czech: “Carlsbad Caverns National Park”
  • Czech: “Carlsbadské jeskyně”
  • Czech: “Národní park Carlsbadské jeskyně”
  • Danish: “Carlsbad Caverns National Park”
  • Dutch: “Carlsbad Caverns National Park”
  • Dutch: “Carlsbad Caverns”
  • Dutch: “Nationaal park Carlsbad Caverns”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “حديقة كهوف كارلسباد الوطنيه”
  • Estonian: “Carlsbadi koobaste rahvuspark”
  • Finnish: “Carlsbad Caverns”
  • Finnish: “Carlsbad Cavernsin kansallispuisto”
  • French: “Carlsbad Cavern”
  • French: “Carlsbad Caverns National Park”
  • French: “Carlsbad Caverns”
  • French: “Carlsbad National Park”
  • French: “Grottes de Carlsbad”
  • French: “Parc national de carlsbad caverns”
  • French: “parc national des grottes de Carlsbad”
  • French: “Parc national des grottes de Carlsbad”
  • Georgian: “კარლსბადის მღვიმეები”
  • Georgian: “კარსლბადის მღვიმეების ეროვნული პარკი”
  • German: “Carlsbad Caverns National Park”
  • German: “Carlsbad Caverns-Nationalpark”
  • German: “Carlsbad Caverns”
  • German: “Carlsbad-Caverns-Nationalpark”
  • German: “Carlsbader Höhlen”
  • Hebrew: “הפארק הלאומי מערות קרלסבד”
  • Hindi: “कार्ल्सबैड कावेर्न्स राष्ट्रीय उद्यान”
  • Hindi: “कार्ल्सबैड कावेर्न्स”
  • Hungarian: “Carlsbad Caverns Nemzeti Park”
  • Indonesian: “Taman Nasional Carlsbad Caverns”
  • Indonesian: “Taman Nasional Goa Carlsbad”
  • Indonesian: “Taman Nasional Gua Carlsbad”
  • Italian: “Carlsbad Caverns”
  • Italian: “Parco nazionale delle Carlsbad Caverns”
  • Japanese: “カールスバッド洞窟群国立公園”
  • Japanese: “カールズバッド洞窟群国立公園”
  • Kazakh: “Карлсбадтық үңгірлер”
  • Korean: “칼스베드 동굴 국립공원”
  • Korean: “칼즈배드 동굴 국립공원”
  • Latvian: “Karlsbādes alas”
  • Latvian: “Kārlsbādes alas”
  • Latvian: “Karlsbādes alu nacionālais parks”
  • Latvian: “Kārlsbādes alu nacionālais parks”
  • Lithuanian: “Karlsbado Urvų nacionalinis parkas”
  • Malayalam: “കാൾസ്ബാദ് ഗുഹകൾ ദേശീയോദ്യാനം”
  • Maltese: “Park Nazzjonali tal-Għerien ta‘ Carlsbad”
  • Maltese: “Park Nazzjonali tal-Għerien ta’ Carlsbad”
  • Mazanderani: “کالسباد غار”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Carlsbad Caverns nasjonalpark”
  • Norwegian: “Carlsbad Caverns nasjonalpark”
  • Persian: “پارک ملی حفره های کارلزبد”
  • Persian: “پارک ملی حفره‌های کارلزبد”
  • Persian: “پارک ملی غارهای کارلزباد”
  • Persian: “پارک ملی کارلسبد کاورنس”
  • Persian: “غار کارلسباد”
  • Polish: “Carlsbad Caverns”
  • Polish: “Park Narodowy Carlsbad Caverns”
  • Portuguese: “Carlsbad Caverns National Park”
  • Portuguese: “Parque Nacional das Cavernas de Carlsbad”
  • Portuguese: “Parque Nacional das Grutas de Carlsbad”
  • Romanian: “Rezervatia naturala Pesterile Carlsbad”
  • Romanian: “Rezervaţia naturală Peşterile Carlsbad”
  • Romanian: “Rezervația naturală Peșterile Carlsbad”
  • Russian: “Карлсбадские пещеры”
  • Slovak: “Carlsbad Caverns National Park”
  • Slovak: “Národný park Carlsbad Caverns”
  • Spanish: “Cavernas de Carlsbad”
  • Spanish: “Parque Nacional Cavernas Carlsbad”
  • Spanish: “Parque nacional de las Cavernas de Carlsbad”
  • Swedish: “Carlbadgrottan”
  • Swedish: “Carlsbad Caverns National Park”
  • Swedish: “Carlsbad Caverns nationalpark”
  • Swedish: “Carlsbad Caverns”
  • Swedish: “Carlsbadgrottan”
  • Swedish: “Carslbad caverns national park”
  • Thai: “อุทยานแห่งชาติคาร์ลสแบดแคเวินส์”
  • Thai: “อุทยานแห่งชาติคาร์ลสแบดแคเวิร์นส”
  • Turkish: “Carlsbad Mağaraları Millî Parkı”
  • Turkish: “Carlsbad Mağaraları Ulusal Parkı”
  • Ukrainian: “Карлсбадські печери”
  • Ukrainian: “Національний парк Карлсбадські печери”
  • Uzbek: “Karlsbad g‘orlari”
  • Uzbek: “Karlsbad G‘orlari”
  • Uzbek: “Karlsbad g’orlari”
  • Uzbek: “Karlsbad G’orlari”
  • Uzbek: “Karlsbad g`orlari”
  • Uzbek: “Karlsbad G`orlari”
  • Uzbek: “Karlsbad gʻorlari”
  • Uzbek: “Karlsbad Gʻorlari”
  • Vietnamese: “Vườn quốc gia Carlsbad Caverns”

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Carlsbad Caverns National Park”. Photo: Footwarrior, CC BY-SA 3.0.