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By Sarah Everglades National Park Location • Region-Southeast • State-Florida • Capital-Tallahassee • Longitude-80.94°W • Latitude-25.31°N Culture • There were lots of cultures that went to the Everglades • American Indians were the first people to come to the • • Everglades In the early 1500s Spanish explorers came to Florida looking for gold Marjory Stoneman Douglas was one of the first people to see the need to protect the area Dry season Landforms • • • • The Everglades is made up of one landform Everglades is a flat land that is called grasslands Pa-grassy hay-okee is what Indians called waters Limestone rocks make up the ground in the Everglades Waterways • The Everglades biggest problem is loss of water • The canals also change the water flow from like • • okeechobee to the everglades A canal system is a draing the water from the area The water loss is changing the parts ecosystem River of grass Rocks and minerals • Rocks and minerals found in Everglades national park date back millon of years ago • Millon of years ago glaciers caved most of North America and everglades • The resuling spherical grains of limestone are called ooids • Shells, mud and sand hardened at the bottom of the ocean and formed limestone. Above this layer are the wetlands and grassland that make up the everglades.