Durmitor National Park

Serbia and Montenegro / Montenegro / Pljevlja /
 nature conservation park / area, UNESCO World Heritage Site, national park

Durmitor is a mountain and the name of a national park in Montenegro. It reaches a height of 2,522 meters.

The Durmitor National Park, created in 1952, includes the massif of Durmitor, the canyons of Tara, Sušica and Draga rivers and the higher part of the canyon plateau Komarnica, covering the area of 390 km².

It was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1980.

A part of the National park Durmitor is also the river Tara River Canyon, 80 km long and 1,300 m deep, second largest in the world, just behind Grand Canyon in Arizona.
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Coordinates:   43°9'44"N   19°7'30"E

Comments

  • great place in Montenegru
  • Great place! Where does its name come from?
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