Sapo National Park
| Sapo National Park | |
|---|---|
| Location | Sinoe County, Liberia |
| Nearest city | Greenville |
| Coordinates | 5°24′40.01″N 8°24′52.65″W / 5.4111139°N 8.4146250°W |
| Area | 1,804 km2 (697 sq mi) |
| Established | 1983 |
| Governing body | Forestry Development Authority |
Sapo National Park is a national park in Sinoe County, Liberia. It is the country's largest protected area of rainforest, was the first national park established in the country, and contains the second-largest area of primary tropical rainforest in West Africa after Taï National Park in neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire. Agriculture, construction, fishing, hunting, human settlement, and logging are prohibited in the park.
Sapo National Park is located in the Upper Guinean forest ecosystem, a biodiversity hotspot that has "the highest mammal species diversity of any region in the world", according to Conservation International, and in the Western Guinean lowland forests ecoregion, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature's ecoregions classification scheme.