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Kornati National park:
The Kornati archipelago, as a special group of islands covers the area of 320 km˛. This, the most indented group of islands in the Adriatic sea, which includes even 1/12 of all the islands of the croatian part of the Adriatic sea, since long time ago appeals many mariners, divers, mountaineers and other people that are in love with nature and with everything that the nature offers.
On a total lenghth of 35 km or 19 NM and in the width of 13 km or 7 NM there are situated even
four series of islands which are classified in 2 groups:
On a total lenghth of 35 km or 19 NM and in the width of 13 km or 7 NM there are situated even four series of islands which are classified in 2 groups:
Upper Kornati – Sit’s and Žut’s series of islands, and Lower Kornati - Kornati’s and Piškera’s series of islands.
Only 3 islands are bigger than 1 km˛ , while there are 76 of them that are smaller than 100 m˛. After some data, length of the coastal line of the island of Kornat is about 66 km, while for the Lower Kornati (that is for Kornati National park) that value amounts to 185 km.
Krka National park (Krka waterfalls):
Krka was proclaimed a National park in 1985. as the seventh of the croatian national parks.
It is situated in the county Šibenik-Knin and it covers the area of 111 km˛ by the flow of river Krka: 2 km downstream from Knin till Skradin and the lower flow of the small river Čikola.
River Krka springs at the foot of the Dinara mountain by Knin.
With deluged part of its mouth, the river Krka is 72 km long. Total area of its tapping is 2.088 km˛.
Central flow per year through “Skradinski buk” waterfall is 55 mł/s, and when it strongly rains it grows also over 350 mł/s. With its 7 waterfalls with travertine thresholds: Bilušića buk (22,4 m), Ćorića buk or Brljan (15,5 m), Manojlovac waterfalls (a range of waterfalls which is 59,6 m heigh with the main step that is 32 m heigh), Rošnjak (8,4 m), Miljacka waterfall (23,8 m), Roški slap (25,5 m) and Skradinski buk (17 steps with total height of 45,7 m) and the total fall of 242 m Krka is a natural and karst phenomenon.
Travertine (that is the limestone which is settled out from the water and combined with moss) that bilds travertine thresholds, covers, beards, curtains and othergeomorphological shapes, is a basic phenomenon and a skeleton of the today’s hydrogeological and landscape picture of the National park.
Grounds of waterfalls are biodinamic creations, that grow with permanent layers of travertine and today they are called “living travertine”.
Beauty of the Krka National park is crowned by three the most attractive destinations for trips:
- waterfalls of Skradinski buk,
- waterfalls of Roški slap with ancient water-mills and
the franciscan islet of Visovac, with a rich library and cultural and art treasury. |
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