Jamski sustav Kita Gaćešina-Draženova puhaljka

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Day care center Gaćešina-Draženova puhaljka

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Location: Gračac , Croatia
Geographic
location:
44 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  N , 15 ° 51 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 44 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  N , 15 ° 51 ′ 0 ″  E
Jamski sustav Kita Gaćešina-Draženova puhaljka (Croatia)
Jamski sustav Kita Gaćešina-Draženova puhaljka
Type: Karst cave
Overall length: 37,389 m
Level difference: 737 m

The Gaćešina-Draženova puhaljka day care center is the longest cave system in Croatia .

location

It is located in the southern Velebit Mountains a few kilometers south of the town of Gračac on the Crnopac mountain, about 50 kilometers east of the provincial capital Zadar .

Data

The system extends over a length of more than 37 kilometers, making it one of the 200 longest caves in the world. It wasn't discovered until the 21st century and has been explored since 2004. The cave is 737 m deep.

Web link

  • Description (Croatian) on the website of Hrvatski speleološki poslužitelj

Individual evidence

  1. Dénes Lóczy, Miloš Stankoviansky, Adam Kotarba: Recent Landform Evolution: The Carpatho-Balkan-Dinaric Region . Springer Science & Business Media, 2012, ISBN 978-94-007-2448-8 , pp. 328 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed December 27, 2016] illustrated).
  2. Jamski sustav Kita Gaćešina-Draženova puhaljka. HPK Sv. Mihovil, Šibenik, accessed January 16, 2019 (Croatian).