Biogradska Gora National Park
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| Location: | Montenegro | ||
| Specialty: | Mountain landscape with jungle | ||
| Next city: | Kolašin | ||
| Surface: | 56.5 km² | ||
| Founding: | 1952 | ||
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Biogradska Gora is a national park in Montenegro known for its primeval forest .
geography
Biogradska Gora is located in the mountainous Bjelasica region in central Montenegro, around 100 kilometers north of the capital Podgorica . Most of it is drained to the Tara River to the west . To the east lies the Lim valley . The national park is located in the territory of the Kolašin municipality and borders the Berane and Mojkovac municipalities .
The national park has an area of 56.5 km². It essentially consists of untouched, ancient forest, extensive mountains with heights in some cases of over 2000 meters, mountain streams and green mountain pastures as well as six glacial lakes . Five lakes are at an altitude of 1820 m. The largest of the six lakes, the Biogradsko jezero , is located in the valley floor at 1094 m above sea level at the entrance to the park. The elongated lake is around one kilometer long and up to 261 m wide.
In addition to a few adjacent areas, the protected area essentially comprises an approximately ten kilometer long side valley of the Tara with the Biogradsko Jezero in the lower third. It is forested up to an altitude between 1600 and 1800 m. Above this, the slopes of the V valley become significantly flatter; Mountain pastures extend over partially plateau-like slopes. The highest point in the park is the Crna Glava with a height of 2139 m.
The park is considered a unique geomorphological region and is therefore more often the subject of scientific research.
nature
Although it is the smallest national park in Montenegro, the Biogradska Gora National Park offers a wide variety of flora and fauna. There are 26 habitats of plants with 2000 different species and subspecies. Many of them are endemic . 150 species of birds , numerous reptiles and amphibians, and ten species of mammals live in the park - including bears , bats and red deer . And there are 86 types of trees and shrubs in his forest . Three types of trout and 350 types of insects have been identified.
Above all, the park is known for its 16 km² large primeval forest with trees over five hundred years old, which extends around the Biogradsko Jezero. It is considered to be one of the very few primeval forests in Europe. The largest trees are 45 meters high and 147 cm in diameter. Most common are around the lake red beech , sycamore and ash trees , on the steep slopes silver fir to find.
history
As Kolašin 1878 by the Ottoman domination was liberated, the people leaving from Morača and Rovca a part of the forest King Nikola I . This forest, known as Branik Krajla Nikole , was placed under protection by the king - just 14 years after the world's first nature reserve, Yosemite Park , was created in the USA . In 1952 Biogradska Gora was declared a national park.
Infrastructure
A good road branches off a little north of Kolašin from the main road through the Tara valley into the park. It leads to the bank of Biogradsko Jezero, where there is a park administration hut with tourist information, a restaurant, some wooden huts for accommodation and a boat dock. The houses and information boards were renewed with the help of the Austrian Development Agency . The Austrians also had a 21 m high observation tower built near a feeding station above the lake, which was opened in 2009.
A well-developed hiking trail leads around the lake. A forest road leads to the pastures high above the valley and further up to the Zekova Glava (2117 m) at the end of the valley. While there is only one hiking trail leading out of the valley from the lake, there is a spacious hiking area in the higher region around Zekova Glava and Crna Glava.
There is a small fee to enter the park. The park administration is based in Kolašin.
gallery
Old trees in the forest
Wooden dock on the lake
Bicycle path
Arranged hiking trail around the lake
Education boards along the way
Pavilion by the lake
See also
Web links
- Website of the Biogradska Gora National Park
- World Database on Protected Areas - National Park Biogradska Gora (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Website of the Biogradska Gora National Park
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