Little Fatra National Park

Malá Fatra National Park ; Narodný park Malá Fatra
	The Veľký Rozsutec , symbol of the National Park
Location:	Žilinský , Slovakia
Next city:	Žilina , Vrútky , Dolný Kubín
Surface:	226.30 km²
Founding:	April 1, 1988
Address:	Sprava Národného parku Malá Fatra ; Hrnčiarska 197 ; 013 03 Varín ; www.npmalafatra.sk
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The National Park Little Fatra ( Slovak Národný park Malá Fatra ) is a Slovak national park in the north-west of the country. It extends over part of the Malá Fatra Mountains . The national park was founded in 1988 after a landscape protection area had existed in roughly the same area since 1967 in order to better protect the mountains from negative civilization influences.

The administrative headquarters are in Varín .

geography

Šútovský vodopád waterfall

The national park is located in the political district of Žilinský kraj (Okresy Žilina , Martin and Dolný Kubín ) and extends over the eastern part of the Little Fatra, which (after the Veľký Kriváň mountain ) is named Krivánska Fatra , i.e. between the Waag pass at Strečno and the beginning of the Oravská Magura mountains near Zázrivá . The size of the core zone is 226.30 km², the protection zone is 232.62 km², a total of 458.92 km². The protection zone also includes part of the Žilinská kotlina basin , a small part of the second part of the Little Fatra, the Lúčanská Fatra , and the Šípska Fatra on the left bank of the Orava , partly already in the Okres Ružomberok . Together with the Hungarian Danube-Eipel National Park, the Little Fatra National Park is the westernmost national park in the entire Carpathian arch (however there are still some protected landscape areas).

The highest mountain is the Veľký Kriváň with 1709 m nm A well-known valley in the national park is the Vrátna valley .

Flora and fauna

An alpine shrub insect in Ostrá skala

About two thirds of the national park are forested. The deciduous forest covers about 60% of it, in contrast to the coniferous forest (40%), the most common trees are beeches and spruces , firs , mountain pines and maples are less common .

In the large species variety, the following species / genera are just a few examples:

Gentians ( Clusius gentian )
Auricle
Cloves
Round-leaved sundew
Cypripedioideae ( Yellow Lady's Slipper )

In addition, some endemics grow in the area of the national park Alchemilla sojakii , Alchemilla virginea (genus lady 's mantle ), Euphrasia stipitata (genus eye rust ) and Sorbus margittaiana (genus whitebeam ).

In the national park you can z. B. golden eagles , eagle owls , black storks , brown bears , Eurasian lynx , stone marten , otters , wild cats and wolves.

tourism

Tiesňavy National Nature Reserve

Some attractions in and around the national park include:

the Krýštálová jaskyňa (crystal cave) below the Malý Rozsutec mountain, with calcite decoration
the 38 m high waterfall of Šútovo
Tiesňavy national nature reserve
Strečno Castle and Starhrad Castle by the Domašín meander of the Váh
traditional folk architecture (Štefanová) and centers of Slovak folklore (e.g. Terchová )

Special nature protection

Národné prírodné rezervácie (NPR, National Nature Reserves)

Chleb (412.87 ha, since 1967)

Kľačianska Magura (204.47 ha, 1976)

Krivé (203.72 ha, 1979)

Prípor (272.27 ha, 1980)

Rozsutec (841.55 ha, 1967)

Sokolec (199.24 ha, 1980)

Starý hrad (85.42 ha, 1967)

Suchý (429.42 ha, 1979)

Šrámková (243.65 ha, 1967)

Šútovská dolina (526.65 ha, 1967)

Tiesňavy (479.21 ha, 1967)

Veľká Bránica (332.09 ha, 1967)

Prírodné rezervácie (PR, nature reserves)

Hajasová (7.17 ha, since 1976)

Hrádok (6.75 ha, 1976)

Pod Rígľom (14.23 ha, 1984)

Veľká Lučivná (66.38 ha, 1964)

literature

Ján Lacika, Kliment Ondrejka: Prírodné Krásy Slovenska - Národné parky . Ed .: DAJAMA. 1st edition. Bratislava 2009, ISBN 978-80-89226-27-6 .

Web links

Commons : Národný park Malá Fatra - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Official site of the administration (Slovak)