Kavir National Park

IUCN Category II - National Park

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The Kavir National Park is a 4,000 -square-kilometer nature reserve on the western edge of the Kavir Desert ( Dasht -e Kavir ), 120 km south of Tehran and 100 kilometers east of Qom.

In the desert and steppe landscape of the park Wild goats, wild sheep, striped hyenas, wolves and gazelles as well as the rare Asiatic cheetah and the Persian leopard live. The flora of the desert consists mainly of succulents. At the edge of the national park is the salt lake Daryācheh -ye Namak, a salt marsh, which is fed from the north of Qom, which flows through the northern part of the national park and one of the few rivers of Iran, the permanently flowing.