Plitvice Lakes National Park
Plitvicka National Park Plitvice Lakes is the largest and oldest national park in Croatia. The year of foundation was 1949.
The national park is located in the hilly karst area of central Croatia, almost on the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is 296.85 square kilometers in size. Plitvice Lakes were included in the UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979. Plitvice Lakes can be reached from the Zagreb-Split highway, which is about 50 kilometers away, via the Karlovac exits in the north, Otocac in the west or Gornja Ploca in the south.
Due to the soil condition of the karst rock, the rivers seep into the rock and continue to flow underground. When a river encounters harder rock, it resurfaces with its masses of water. This created a unique lake landscape.
There are about 50 species of mammals in the national park, including bears and wolves.
