Thursday, September 18, 2008

Krka National Park

Krka
The river Krka is a natural phenomenon that has because of its beauty in 1985 declared as 7th National park in Croatia. National park is consisted of seven travertine falls and possesses rich flora and fauna. Estuary of the river is the sea-sunken and it is 23, 5 km long. It has preserved the purity and biological vitality. Here you can find remains of historical forts and most of them were ruined by the Turks in past centuries. National park has 860 species of plants and most of them are Illyrian-Adriatic endemic species. Among mammals it is important to point out that here is kept 18 species of bats that are threatened with extinction in Europe. This Croatian treasury is visited by people from all over the world.

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