Plitvice is Croatia’s most well known national park. It became Croatia’s first national park on April 8, 1949. Thirty years later, it was added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list.

Plitvice Lakes is a group of sixteen small lakes gradually lined up and connected with numerous large and smaller waterfalls. The Plitvice Lakes are divided into the Upper Lakes and the Lower Lakes. The Upper Lakes are located in the area from Proscansko Lake up to the Kozjak, and the Lower Lakes in a limestone canyon which continues further under Sastavci as the River Korana canyon flow - 134 km long before reaching the mouth. The length of the Plitvice Lakes (according to the longitudinal cross - section presented by Eng. M. Petrik in 1952) is 8200 meters, and if we add to it Liman draga at Proscansko, Susanjska draga at Kozjak and the furthest point at Ciganovac lake – then that makes the longitudinal line going through all the lakes at 9050 meters.

The national park is covered by a dense forest. There are numerous caves, cavities, abysses and ice pits within the Plitvice Lakes National Park. So far, we are familiar with more than fifty such phenomena, but only a small number of them are accessible and interesting as a tourist attraction.

The wildlife and animal species that could be found at the park include: wolf, fox, hare, skunk, weasel, otter, lynx, wild cat, wild boar, deer, and brown bear.

For more information, check the official Plitvice Lakes website