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  • 2. Karkonoski National Park Jelenia Gora
    The Karkonosze National Park is a National Park in the Karkonosze Mountains in the Sudetes in southwestern Poland, along the border with the Czech Republic.The park is located in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in the highest part of the Sudetes. It was created in 1959 to cover an area of 55.10 km². Today it is slightly larger at 55.76 km2 , of which 17.18 km² is strictly protected. The majority of the park area, around 33.80 km², consists of forests. In 1992 Karkonosze National Park, together with the neighbouring Czech Krkonoše National Park, became part of the Krkonose / Karkonosze biosphere reserve under UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere programme. Also, 40 hectares of peat bogs were designated a Ramsar international wetland site.
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  • 6. Gorczanski Park Narodowy Nowy Targ
    Gorce National Park is a national park in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, southern Poland. It covers central and northeastern parts of the Gorce Mountains, which are part of the Western Beskids . The first steps to protect this land go back to 1927, when a forest reserve was set up on land owned by Count Ludwik Wodzicki of Poręba Wielka. The National Park was created in 1981, then covering 23.9 square kilometres. Today, the area of the park has grown to 70.3 km2 , of which 65.91 km² is forested. The area of the protective zone around the park is 166.47 km². The park lies within Limanowa County and Nowy Targ County, and has its headquarters in Poręba Wielka. The Gorce range is dominated by arched peaks and river valleys which cut into the range. There are a few small caves and obviously - se...
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  • 7. Babiogorski National Park Zawoja
    Babia Góra National Park is one of the 23 national parks in Poland, located in the southern part of the country, in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, on the border with Slovakia. The Park has its headquarters in the village of Zawoja. The park covers an area of 33.92 square kilometres , of which forests occupy 31.98 km2 . The park includes the northern and part of the southern side of the Babia Góra massif, of which the main peak is the highest point of the Orava Beskids mountain range at 1,725 metres . There is a protected area Horná Orava Protected Landscape Area on the Slovak side of the massif. The area of Babia Góra was first brought under legal protection in 1933, when the Babia Góra Reserve was created. On October 30, 1954 it was designated a National Park. Since 1976 it has been list...
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  • 10. Magurski National Park Southern Poland
    Magura National Park is a National Park located in the south-east of Poland, close to Slovakia, on the boundary of Lesser Poland Voivodeship and Subcarpathian Voivodeship. It covers the main part of the upper basin of the Wisłoka river. When the Park was created in 1995 it covered 199.62 km², although it is now only 194.39 km2 , of which 185.31 km² is forest. The Park takes its name from the massif known as Magura Wątkowska, after Wątkowa, its highest peak. Magura is also the name of the second-highest peak of this massif.
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  • 12. Bieszczady National Park Lutowiska
    Bieszczady County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in the extreme south-east of Poland, on the border with Ukraine. It takes its name from the Bieszczady mountain range. The county was created on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. In 2002 the western part of the county was split off to form Lesko County. The only town in Bieszczady County is now Ustrzyki Dolne, the county seat, which lies 80 kilometres south-east of the regional capital Rzeszów. The county covers an area of 1,138.17 square kilometres . As of 2006 its total population is 22,213, of which the population of Ustrzyki Dolne is 9,478 and the rural population is 12,735. Its average population density of 19.5 persons per squ...
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