Yosemite National Park, California, USA

Yosemite National Park is a national park which is located in the western Sierra Nevada of California. Covering an area of 1,169 square meters, the national park is administrated by the National Park Service. The park lies on four counties, which are Tuolumne and Mariposa in the center and Mono and Madera country in the north and the east. Among 7.000 plant species which are endemic to California, almost 50% of them grow in the Sierra Nevada and 20% of them grow within Yosemite. The national park derives its name from Miwok language. The word ‘Yosemite’ means killer.