National Park Durmitor and The canyon of River Tara
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Name: The name Durmitor is
probably of Celtic origin and means "mountain with water" Durmitor consist of: The lower part of Durmitor mass is covered with conifer wood (juniper bush, fir tree and white pine tree) and deciduous trees. The valleys are covered with rich pastures. On the funnels and foothills some interesting kinds of flora can be found (rare relictnic and endemic species). Chamois, bear, wolf, eagle and big grouse are not rare animals. The special characteristic of Durmitor are its lakes, pools, puddles, underground streams and springs. THE TARA CANYON - THE TEAR OF EUROPE
On the canyon sides there are isthmuses-clifs, rocky hillsides, spread stony heads and depressions which cut across mountain sides. The Tara canyon is deepened by the river erossia and denudation; it is designed by lonely pine trees and also by conifer woods. |
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park is
under the influence of both Mediterranean and alpine micro climates which has resulted in
an exceptional range of species. Geologically, Durmitor and Tara canyons are made up of
rocky massifs of the secondary area (from the lower Triassic to the upper Cretaceous),
tertiary and quaternary areas. The dominant features are the limestone formations of the
middle and upper Triassic, the upper Jurassic and the upper Cretaceous, especially the
so-called Durmitorean flysch. The river Tara, on of the last wild rivers in Europe, has
pure, clear waters, a gorge of 1.300m depth and notable floristic and faunistic diversity.
The 16 glacial lakes of the Durmitor and the canyons of the Tara, Susica and Draga rivers
were formed during the Quaternary period, following the sudden thaw of the snow and the
formation of glaciers on the Durmitor and neighboring mountains. The water of the largest
lake, Black Lake (Crno jezero), feed two separate river basins: the river Tara, and
underground through the Durmitor massif to the river Komarnica or Piva. Durmitor,
this natural link between earth and sky, the Athos of Montenegro, first ecological state
in the world, offers you: 18 lakes, 5 canyons, 27 peaks above 2200 meters, 48 peaks above
2000 meters, 748 sources of potable waters, forests over 500 years old, 2000 km of marked
foot paths and climbing paths.
A fast and
noisy river, 150 km long, it cuts trough the Montenegrin mountains a 90 km long canyon of
unequalled wild beauty. Its steeps sides rise to 1300 meters. This area is covered with
jungle vegetation which emanates a sublime harshness. It is one of the few oases of
immaculate nature, and a reservation for many species of plants and animals, some of the
endemic. All this has contributed to this canyon, second in size in the world (after the
Grand Canyon in Colorado), and Durmitor wit it, being protected by UNESCO as part of the
world's heritage. The canyon is fall down into the depth of earth, a steep and deep line
cut between high mountains, one of the deepest gorges in the world formed by erossia, the
deepest canyon in Europe. The Tara canyon spreads from Bistrica (Crna poda) to Scepan
polje and it's about 80km long. The kanyon is cut between the mountains Sinjavina and
Durmitor on the left, and Ljubisnja and Zlatan bor on the right hand side. 
