Wednesday, 20 August 2014

Plitvice Lakes

Plitvice Lakes is located south of the Croatian capital Zagreb and extends over an area of ​​30 thousand kilometers and visited by nearly a million visitors annually, and complex Plitvice Lakes, which contains 16 magnificent lake beside a mountainous area covered with flowers and includes gardens Blatveka Jezirya National, which is one of the most beautiful gardens Croatia, located Lakes plateau Plitvice in the central region in Croatia on the border of Bosnia and Herzegovina and is surrounded by three mountains are ... (Alps Dinaric - Mountain Gurena - Mountain Malakabila), called the (national Park), the oldest national park in Southeast Europe and the largest park in Croatia founded in 1949 and best known as a tourist destination is not in Croatia, but according to the level where the world has earned its fame from the beauty of its lakes and waterfalls. 


It is a protected area extends over 296.85 square kilometers, about 90 percent of this region is part of the province of Lika, while 10 percent remaining are part of the County of Karlovac, characterized in spring and autumn larger quantities of rain is the average temperature at 20:00 and an average annual rainfall average 1500 mm in area lakes and snow falling in November to March and usually freezes lakes during the months of December and January