# La Palmyre Zoo

- **Country:** France
- **Coordinates:** 45.687500, -1.166944
- **Area:** 18 ha
- **Opened:** 1966
- **Location:** Les Mathes, Charente-Maritime
- **Zoo Name:** La Palmyre Zoo
- **Date Opened:** 1966
- **Num Animals:** 1600
- **Num Species:** 145

La Palmyre Zoo (French: Zoo de La Palmyre, ) is a zoo in Les Mathes, Charente-Maritime, near Royan, in southwestern France. It was created in 1966 in the forest of la Coubre by Claude Caillé. Extending over , including 14 of landscape garden, it offers the visitor the opportunity of observing more than 1600 animals of all kinds, divided into 145 species, over a distance of more than .

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**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Palmyre_Zoo (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)