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	Plitvice Lakes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Plitvice Lakes ([pli'tviʦɛ̝], Croatian: Plitvička Jezera) are a national park in Croatia, situated at 44.85° N 15.62° E, in the Plitvice Lakes municipality, near the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina.
		The lakes are situated on the eponymous Plitvice plateau, between the mountains of Lička Plješevica (Gornja Plješevica peak 1,640 m), Mala Kapela (Seliški Vrh peak at 1,280 m) and Medveđak (884 m).
		The lakes are separated by natural dams of travertine, which is deposited by the action of moss, algae and bacteria.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plitvice_Lakes (763 words)

	Croatia Plitvice - Mercian Travel Centre - Croatian holidays
		Plitvice Lakes are one of the most beautiful natural sights in Europe.
		Largest depth of the lakes is 46 meters, and natural phenomenon of Plitvice is transparency of lake water, which reaches Photo gallery 8 meter deep.
		Plitvice Lakes offer their visitors kilometers of arranged walking paths which in most cases means wooden bridges built over lake surface and serpentine-like connecting one shore to the other.
	www.merciantravel.co.uk /cro-plitvice2.asp (846 words)

	Plitvice Lakes National Park \| Croatia - land of the falling lakes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The lakes are positioned between the Mala Kapela and Plješivica mountains, in the region of Lika (139 km from Zagreb).
		The lakes are divided into the upper lakes (12) and the lower lakes (4).
		The upper lakes are surrounded by thick forests and are connected by numerous waterfalls, while the lower lakes are smaller, shallower and the vegetation is not so lush.
	www.vacationincroatia.net /plitvice_lakes.htm (350 words)

	Apartments Plitvice lakes Croatia Apartments N.P. Plitvice Croatia
		The upper lakes, surrounded by thick forests and interlinked by numerous waterfalls, lie in a dolomite valley, while the lower lakes, smaller and shallower, surrounded only by sparse underbrush, lie on the limestone bedrock.
		The Lakes receive most of their water from the rivers called Bijela and Crna Rijeka (White and Black Rivers), which are joined into one course south of Proscansko Lake.
		The upper lakes are tierically arranged, separated by dolomite barriers, which grow with the formation of travertine, forming thus travertine barriers.
	apartments-croatia.info /230/plitvice_en.htm (343 words)

	Plitvice Lakes exclusive property on sale
		Plitvice Lakes are composed of 16 interlinked lakes between the mountains of Mala Kapela and Pljesivica in the region of Lika.
		The upper lakes, surrounded by thick forests and interlinked by numerous waterfalls, lie in a dolomite valley, while the lower lakes, smaller and shalower, surounded only by sparse underbrush, lie on the limestone bedrock.
		After the waterfall Sastavci on the lower lakes, the lakes water continue to the korana river and the Plitvice brook, which falls from an elevation of 76m.
	plitvice-salle.tripod.com (765 words)

	UNEP-WCMC Protected Areas Programme - Plitvice Lakes National Park (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Plitvice Lakes (Plitvicka Jezera) declared public property by law, their boundaries finalised, and designated a National Park in the Official Gazette (Narodne Novine) No.29.
		PHYSICAL FEATURES Plitvice plateau lies at 650-700m between the Licka Pljesevica (1,640m) and Mala Kapela (1,280m) mountains and is intersected by the headwaters of the Korana River, the Black and White rivers.
		The Plitvice Lakes basin is a formation of biological origin, a karst river basin of limestone and dolomite, with approximately 16 lakes, behind dams created during the last 4000 years by the deposition of calcium carbonate in solution by encrustation on mosses (Bryum, Cratoneuron), algae and aquatic bacteria.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /sites/wh/plitvice.html (2038 words)

	Plitvice Lakes incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Plitvice Lakes incident of March 1991 (known in Croatian as "Plitvice Bloody Easter", Krvavi Uskrs na Plitvicama / Plitvički Krvavi Uskrs) was a clash between security forces of the Republic of Croatia and armed Serb separatists.
		The Plitvice Lakes are a scenic area and national park of Croatia, located in the Croatian Krajina near the Bosnian border, about 150 km south of the Croatian capital Zagreb.
		Josip Jović, the Croatian policeman killed at Plitvice, was feted by the Croatian media as the "first victim of the Croatian Homeland War", while his dead Serb counterpart Rajko Vukadinović was similarly feted by the Croatian Serbs and the Serbian media as having died to defend Serbian land from the Croatian "Ustashas".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plitvice_Bloody_Easter (1173 words)

	Plitvice lakes :: Plitvicer seen :: Laghi di Plitvice :: Plitvicka jezera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Plitvice lakes were declared as a national park in 1949.
		The area of Plitvice lakes is situated in a valley where are sixteen marvellus lakes with very intensive blue-green water.
		Lakes are fed by small brooks and spill into each other in many cascades and waterfalls.
	www.burger.si /Croatia/Plitvice/Plitvice.html (93 words)

	National Park Plitvice Lakes Croatia Accommodation Excusion
		Plitvice Lakes are located in eastern Lika between the Mala Kapela and Licka Plesevica mountains.
		The lower lakes are set on a limestone base in a gorge with towering steep cliffs, forged by a river in a time before the lakes had evolved.
		Plitvice Lakes are the most famous of Croatian National Parks and are amongst the most beautiful natural sites in Europe.
	www.dmmedia.com /izleti/plitvice_gb.htm (601 words)

	Zvonko's Travels
		At Burget Lake we boarded the electric-driven flat boat in which we crossed the largest of all lakes the Kozjak and landed at its western shore at the landing stage Kozjacke Drage.
		The Lower Lakes have limestone (Cretaceous) beds and are therefore situated in a canyon cut by a river at a time before the lakes were formed.
		The Upper Lakes are situated in a richly articulated relief, but the canyon of the Lower Lakes is incised into an undulating plateau that continues down with the Korana River.
	www.cosy.sbg.ac.at /~zzspri/travels/plitvice/plitvicealt1.html (2183 words)

	Plitvice Lakes National Park :: , Plitvice Lakes National Park, Plitvice Lakes, Croatia :: Glass Steel and Stone
		The Plitvice Lakes National Park is in the center of one of the world's most disputed regions.
		At the end of each lake is a natural dam, down which hundreds of waterfalls cascade to the next lake in the chain.
		The rain poured and poured, and the waters began to grow, until they formed the lakes as we see them today." Thanks to an uncommon interaction of the lake's biomass and the calcium, and magnesium carbonates in the limestone, the dams are made mostly of travertine.
	www.glasssteelandstone.com /BuildingDetail.php?ID=94 (563 words)

	PLITVICE_LAKES
		Plitvice Lakes, the oldest Croatian National Park and nature monument included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, are considered to be absolutely the most shining example of such creative commensalism between rock and water.
		The lakes receive their water from many small rivers and mountain streams, and are interlinked by foamy cascades and noisy waterfalls.
		The key feature of the entire lakes and waterfalls system is the magnificent dynamics of the constant growth and transformation of all its elements under the influence of biodynamic phenomena.
	www.iriscroatica.hr /Eplitvice.htm (379 words)

	Plitvice travel guide
		This national park is situated in the region of Lika, between the mountain massif of Mala Kapela and a spur of Licka Pljesivica.
		Although throughout their course they are located in pronouncedly karst topography, the lakes have nevertheless remained surface features, and it is from this that the other unusual and specific characteristics of the lakes derive.
		This lake lies at an altitude of 636 meters above sea level, and the water runs from it through the lower lakes down to the River Korana, racing over many travertine barriers of various morphological forms and creating countless falls and rapids of great beauty.
	www.world66.com /europe/croatia/plitvice (416 words)

	Welcome to Plitvice apartments
		The National park Plitvice covers on area of 29482 hectares, of which 22000 hectares are forest, 217 hectares are lakes and streams and the rest are meadows and farm land.
		Tue to their unique evolution and beauty, in 1979 the Plitvice Lakes were entered in the UNESCO Register of World Natural Heritage.
		The exceptional beauty of the Plitvice lakes and waterfalls, rich plant and animal life, contrasting colours, forests and the pure mountain air, comfortable hotels and rustic restaurants attract nearly one milion of nature lovers every year.
	www.plitvice.info /eng.htm (345 words)

	Croatian Touristic Information Service: Travel Info - Plitvice
		The Plitvice Lakes complex, established as a national park in 1949, is a wooded mountain area with 16 beautiful small and large crystal blue-green lakes.
		Because of their unique structure and life forms, the Plitvice Lakes were registered on the UNESCO World Natural Heritage List in 1979.
		Every year, almost a million visitors are attracted by the extraordinary natural beauty of the park’s lakes and waterfalls, the richness of the animal and floral life, the wonderful contrasts of autumn colors, the enchanting winter motifs and the mountain air.
	www.dalmacija.net /plitvice.htm (351 words)

	Chasing Waterfalls - Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia, Croatia, Croatia Travel Stories, Europe, Europe Travel ...
		I had decided to go to the Plitvice Lakes National Park on a whim, when a drunken Australian girl in a Dubrovnik pub told me that it was among the most beautiful places she had seen in all her wide travels.
		It was his first time to Plitvice, although he had been to Croatia nearly every year since he was a kid.
		It is disconcerting to come across a war memorial that is barely a decade old, with burned-out candles and faded flowers that were probably placed by the still-young relatives of the victim.
	www.bootsnall.com /articles/05-08/chasing-waterfalls-plitvice-lakes-national-park-croatia.html (1946 words)

	Plitvice Lakes National Park Croatia - Plitvicka Jezera
		Plitvice waterfalls are created by deposition of travertine -a kind of limestone that created this unique and attractive wonder of nature.
		Plitvice National Park is the area surrounded by dense forests of beech, fir and spruce, watered by varous springs of the Korana River.
		Lakes are lovely and cool in summer, icy and calm in winter, yellow and ocre in autumn, green and fresh in spring - any time of the year it is a priviledge to be around those lakes!
	www.find-croatia.com /nationalparks/plitvice.html (242 words)

	Visiting Plitvice Lakes National Park Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lying at the bottom of a canyon, the narrow lower lakes are bordered by steep limestone walls and climb like a giant staircase to the upper lakes.
		Wider and surrounded by dense forest, the upper lakes lie on a bed of dolomite.
		Examining the crystalline water of the top lake, I noticed that the leaves and branches settled on the bottom were acquiring a metallic coating.
	www.vacationincroatia.net /visiting_plitvice_lakes_national_park.htm (770 words)

	Protected Areas Programme - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In January 1997, the Parliament of Croatia, at the suggestion of the Lakes Public Establishment and the State Agency for the Protection of Nature and the Environment, made the decision of expanding the borders of the Park.
		The Plitvice Lakes basin is a geomorphological formation of biological origin, a karst river basin of limestone and dolomite, with approximately 20 lakes, created by the deposition of calcium carbonate precipitated in water through the agency of moss, algae and aquatic bacteria.
		In order to maintain and preserve the natural characteristics of the lakes, the whole of surface and most of the subterranean drainage system has to be embraced by extending the original borders of the Park.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /protected_areas/data/wh/plitvice.html (1862 words)

	Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia / Lake-studded valley awaits discovery
		The Serbs occupied Plitvice and the surrounding region until 1995, and most of the Croatians you'll meet here were evacuated and lived near the coastline as refugees.
		Plitvice is also home to about 50 highly endangered European brown bears, but they have the good sense to stay far from the hiking paths.
		After a few hours of strolling the Plitvice boardwalks, I have a personal ritual: Dropping by the rustic park restaurant -- with its heavy-timber beams, open wood-fired grill and Croatian chefs wearing tall hats -- and dining on one of those trout that have been grinning at me all day.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/12/TRGV5M9GG01.DTL (837 words)

	Rick Steves on Croatia's Plitvice Lakes
		This lush valley of terraced lakes is laced together by waterfalls and miles of pleasant wooden-plank walks.
		The Serbs occupied Plitvice until 1995, and many of the Croatians you’ll meet here were evacuated and lived near the coastline as refugees.
		Plitvice’s 16 lakes are divided into the Upper Lakes (gornja jezera) and the Lower Lakes (donja jezera).
	www.transitionsabroad.com /publications/magazine/0411/rick_steves_croatia_plitvice_lakes.shtml (1017 words)

	Visit Croatia - Plitvice Lakes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia's most popular tourist attraction, was granted UNESCO World Heritage status in 1979.
		Located roughly halfway between capital city Zagreb and Zadar on the coast, the lakes are definitely a must-see.
		The beauty of the National Park lies in its sixteen lakes, inter-connected by a series of waterfalls, and set in deep woodland populated by deer, bears, wolves, boars and rare bird species.
	www.visit-croatia.co.uk /plitvicelakes (392 words)

	NATURE . Land of the Falling Lakes \| PBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Nestled in a cluster of lush mountains is a mysterious ancient forest known as the "Devil's Garden," where the olm, lynx, fl stork, and Ural owl live together in an enchanted world of thunderous waterfalls, cascading lakes, and subterranean caverns.
		This Eden is Plitvice Lakes National Park, the oldest national park in Europe, located in Croatia's Dinaric Mountains.
		Plundered during the Balkan War a decade ago, Plitvice owes its new existence to a type of limestone called travertine, which has the ability to grow quickly and continuously, creating new pools and barriers, water slides, and cascades.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/nature/fallinglakes (219 words)

	National Park Plitvice Lakes CROATIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The area of Plitvice Lakes, declared a National Park in 1949, is a valley situated between high forested mountains.
		The exceptional beauty of the lakes and waterfalls, rich plant and animal life, contrasting colours, forests and the pure mountain air attract many nature lovers from all over the world.
		Due to their unique evolution and beauty, in 1979 the Plitvice Lakes were entered in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
	www.i-reception.net /plitvice/ap_marko/html/plitvice_lakes.html (176 words)

	Visiting Plitvice Lakes National Park
		The 16 lakes are a stunning turquoise and spill over into waterfalls and bubbling streams.
		Plitvice is on the main road between Zagreb and Zadar.
		The Plitvice National Park tourist office (tel 053-751 015) is just inside entrance #1.
	www.croatiatraveller.com /Heritage_Sites/Plitvice.htm (151 words)

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