Sanctuary

Center for Great Apes

Q: Where is Center for Great Apes?

United States. Center for Great Apes is a sanctuary in the United States. Its coordinates are 27.525° N, 81.779° W. The nearest national park in our atlas is Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, about 161 km away.

Q: Is Center for Great Apes accredited?

NAPSA. Open registers list Center for Great Apes with NAPSA. These marks come from Wikidata, and they are shown here as a fact, not as an endorsement.

🇺🇸 United States

NAPSA

🛖 Sanctuary, United States 1 spp. present

The Center for Great Apes is an animal sanctuary for great apes located east of Wauchula, Florida. Founded as a nonprofit organization in 1993, the sanctuary has about 70 orangutans and chimpanzees who were formerly used in entertainment, scientific research, or the exotic pet trade. The sanctuary sits on 100 acres of land in rural Florida, southwest of Orlando. Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)

27.525° N 81.779° W

🎟️ Visit

Essentials

Entrance

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Tourism

Medium

Species present

species

Opened

1997

Size

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Accreditations

North American Primate Sanctuary AllianceAlliance of primate sanctuaries in North America

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Getting there

centerforgreatapes.org ↗

What visitors say

I loved visiting The Center for Great Apes and getting to see orangutans again for the first time since seeing them in the wild in Indonesia, over two years ago.

🦒 Animals in captivity

Branta ruficollis

Daily sighting probability ~10% · With luck

in Kiskunság National Park+ 3 more parks · Nearby records

Before you go

Where is Center for Great Apes?

United States

Center for Great Apes is a sanctuary in the United States. Its coordinates are 27.525° N, 81.779° W. The nearest national park in our atlas is Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, about 161 km away.