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El Angel Ecological Reserve

nature reserve in Ecuador

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ4744162 ↗
Source-derived summary

El Angel Ecological Reserve is a 16,000 hectare national park in El Ángel, Ecuador, founded in 1992, consisting primarily of páramo (high altitude grassland).

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “El Angel Ecological Reserve” as nature reserve in Ecuador. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Angel, Ecological and Reserve can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as nature reserve in Ecuador. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4744162. Authority coordinates are 0.755, -77.905. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992.

Critical limits

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “El Angel Ecological Reserve” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.