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Croatia best destination
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Plitvice lakes |
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The natural
attributes of the Plitvice Lakes National Park, uniqueness and sensibiliry
of that phenomenon, deserve a full attention of our visitors. Recreational
aspect of stay and the amazement with beauty of the area that conquers by
its natural diversity and harmony of shapes and colours in any of the
seasons, is based on many mutually conditioned natural characteristics. |
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That is a
specific geological and hydrogeological phenomenon of karst. The series of
16 bigger and a few smaller lakes, gradually lined up, separated by
travertine barriers for which the period of the last ten thousand years was
crucial, and which were ruled by ecological relations similar to those of
today - suitable for travertine depositing and for the origin of the lakes -
are the basic phenomenon of the National Park. |
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Travertine
forming plants, algae and mosses have been and still are playing an
important role in their creation, thus making a very sensitive biodynamic
system. |
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Transitive
type of climate between coastal and continental with microclimatic
diversities makes summer pleasant and sunny, while on the other side winter
is relatively long, harsh and snowrich. There are large forestry complexes
in the Park area, of which some sections are protected as a special reserve
of forestry vegetation due to its primeval characteristics (Corkova uvala
virgin forest). Diversity of places and living conditions makes possible for
numerous species of plants and animals in watery and terrestrial areas of
the Park to develop with no disturbancy. |
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It should
be stressed that all fundamental things that do determine the Park, make a
very fragile structural and functional complex, sensitive to natural changes
and to incautious human actions.
UNESCO has
declared it with all rights as the World's natural inheritance. All that was
mentioned in this short introduction shows a big importance and the reason
why this Natural History Guide of The Plitvice Lakes National Park is being
published. It should come into hands of every single visitor and draw his
attention to numerous attractions of the first Croatian National Park. |
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