Mavrovo National Park
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| Location: | Mavrovo i Rostuša , North Macedonia | ||
| Next city: | Gostivar | ||
| Surface: | 731 km² | ||
| Founding: | 1949 | ||
The Mavrovo National Park ( Macedonian Национален Парк Маврово Nacionalen Park Mavrovo , Albanian Parku Kombëtar i Mavrovës ) is the largest of the three national parks in North Macedonia . It was founded in 1949 and has an area of 731 km². It is located in the northwestern part of North Macedonia , southwest of the city of Gostivar .
Originally the national park had an area of 118 km². In 1952 it was enlarged, at the same time the Mavrovo lake - one in 1233 m. i. J. lying, 13.7 km² reservoir - created, which supplies the area with electricity. The village of Mavrovi Anovi, flooded by the lake, was rebuilt north of the lake. The highest point in the national park is the Korab peak .
The national park is used for tourism for hiking, cycling and skiing; there are hotels, holiday homes and ski lifts. Hiking trails are only occasionally marked. The Duf waterfall near Bituše, the village of Galičnik and the Jovan Bigorski monastery are all worth seeing .
Large parts of the national park consist of grassland, as large areas of forest were cut down until the early 1950s in order to facilitate the intensive sheep farming at the time. At higher altitudes, the common spruce and red beech grow in particular, and various types of oak grow at lower altitudes . To those found in the national park animal species include the Western rock mouse that Martino-snow mouse , the lesser mole-rat , the Balkan mole , several species of shrews and bats; also otters , wild cats , lynxes , wolves and brown bears , as well as numerous rare amphibians, reptiles and insects. Two hydropower plants are being planned that will endanger the survival of the Balkan lynx . The park is home to the most important occurrence of the endangered lynx species.
literature
- Dirk Schröder, Ursel Pagenstecher: Yugoslavia. Travel tips. 5th edition 1990, ISBN 3-88316-018-0 , p. 464
- Andrew Terry, Karin Ullrich and Uwe Riecken: The green belt of Europe. From vision to reality. 2006, ISBN 978-2-8317-0945-1 , pp. 68-69
- Philine of Opole: Macedonia. Out and about in the southern Balkans. 2009, ISBN 978-3-89794-138-0 , pp. 198-209
Web links
- Homepage of the national park (Macedonian and English)
- Arte : In the heart of the Balkans (video, 43 minutes)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mavrovo Lake on Makedonija.name
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Lynx lynx ssp. balcanicus in the Red List of Endangered Species of the IUCN 2015. Posted by: Melovski, D., Breitenmoser, U., von Arx, M., Breitenmoser-Würsten, C., Lanz, T., 2015. Accessed May 31, 2020 .
