Ócsa Landscape Protection Area

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Territory of the protected area: 3 606 hectares, of which 1 466 hectares are under increased protection.
Location: In Pest county, 30 kilometres to the south of Budapest, in the area encircled by the villages Ócsa, Dabas and Inárcs.
Visitors: Except for the highly protected parts it is free of access for visitors. The degree of protection is indicated on signboards.
Management: The Duna–Ipoly National Park

The 'turjános' (the system of connected marshy, swampy lakes are called 'Turjánvidék' or 'turjános') marshes, boggy reeds, associations of wooded marshes, endemic plant and animal species of the Alföld once stretched on several hundreds of square kilometeres. The landscape protection area is one of the last remains and refuge of the natural and social environment of a once was world.
Though the difference of heights of the areas is negligible, as a result of diversified superficial forms, the plant associations are extremely rich, on which each phase of lake succession can be followed from open water surfaces, through marsh and moor associations emerging with the spreading of plants tied to the ground, then through alder-moors, willows even to arborescent associations.

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