Plitvice Lakes National Park

The Plitvice Lakes National Park is located in the Plitvice Lakes municipality in central Croatia, between the Licka PlješevicaPlješevica Mountain and Mala Kapela Mountain.

The Park is on the UNESCO World Heritage List and also a part of the Natural parks Federation as well as European Parks of Nature.

For thousands of years the Plitvice Lakes National Park has been settled by Illyrians, Thracians, Celts, Japods, Romans, Avars, Slavs and Turks.

In 1949 the Park was recognized as a national park and became one of the biggest tourist attractions in the Republic of Croatia. It holds a wide range of woods, animal and bird species, also lakes and waterfalls.

75% of the Park area is covered by forest which is mostly represented by spruce, beech, fir trees as well as Alpine and Mediterranean vegetation.

There are also some meadow communities, mainly categorized into three classes: Festuco-Brometea, Nardo-Calunatea, Molino-Arrhenatheretea and Scheuchzerio-caricatea fuscae.

The Plitvice Lakes National Park hosts more than 126 bird species and a great variety of animals such as European brown bear Ursus arctos, wild cat Felis silvestris, eagle owl Bubo bubo, wolf Canis lupis and capercaillie Tetra urogallus.

There are sixteen lakes within the park area, situated on the Plitvice plateau, between the mountains of Lička Plješevica, Mala Kapela and Medveđak. All lakes together occupy an area of about two km². They are famous for the ability to change their colours, depending on the angle of sunlight also the quantity of minerals and organisms that are in the water. The colours range from green, azure, grey and blue.

The Plitvice Lakes National Park provides a great number of tourist facilities such as hotels, restaurants, post office, car parks, information and sport centres. Among the amenities offered by the park are also the well developed educational sight-seeing programmes which are led by qualified guides.

There is a daily bus to Plitvice from Dubrovnik, also many buses leave from Zagreb or Zadar.

The Plitvice Lakes National Park is open daily from 8am to 9pm.

Address:
Plitvice Lakes National Park
53231 Plitvieka Jezera
Croatia

Tel: 053 751 132

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