CONGAREE SWAMP NATIONAL MONUMENT


Meaning of CONGAREE SWAMP NATIONAL MONUMENT in English

National preserve, central South Carolina, U.S. Authorized in 1976, it covers 15,138 acres (6,126 hectares) of alluvial floodplain on the Congaree River.

It contains the last significant tract of virgin Southern bottomland hardwoods in the southeastern U.S., including loblolly pine, water tupelo, hickory, and oak, some of record size.

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