Crkvice

Crkvice, a village in the municipality of Kotor in Montenegro, was the strongest fort in Orjen and is known as precipitation richest place in Europe. Crkvice is on the Krivošije mentioned plateau in eastern Orjen at an altitude of about 1000 m.

During the Austrian rule came here in 1869 to a significant rebellion of the mountaineers. In order to protect the Bay of Kotor as a naval port, numerous fortifications were built, whose principal was Crkvice. The military frontier between the Ottoman Empire and Austria - Hungary until 1878 was north of Crkvice. An Ottoman division was stationed in the Polje of Grahovo.

A meteorological station from 1888 shows that here is Europe's richest rain area. Records are listed with over 8000 mm of precipitation per year. The mean values ​​are given with 4926 mm, with an average of 70 days of snow. As the table below shows, the situation between the Adriatic coast ( Risan ) and the nearby mountain peaks ( Zubacki Kabao ) within a few kilometers distance, both in terms of the climate type and the rainfall significant differences.

* Ecological and meteorological table of the wettest place in Europe, with characteristic values ​​of the climate on a 15 -km transect between the foot of the mountains on the Mediterranean and the highest mountain peak in Orjen.

42.56666666666718.633333333333Koordinaten: 42 ° 34 'N, 18 ° 38' O

  • Dinarides
  • Place in Montenegro
  • Kotor
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