Gorski kotar

The Gorski Kotar ( German Uplands ) is a region of north- western Croatia and on the west by the Croatian coast.

He is a plateau with an average altitude of 700-900 m. i J., from the mountain tops to over 1500 m. i J. ascend. It rises steeply over the Kvarner bay, while access from the interior is much gentler and graded. Just thus causes climatic consequences that can be attributed to the great influence of the relief. In severe mountain climate in January reign (-2 ° C), February (-0.8 ° C) and December ( -0.5 ° C ) degrees below zero while the average annual temperature is 7.16 ° C. Winters are long, strong and with a blanket of snow that remains are 106 days a year on average. The summers are short, fresh and relatively pleasant. Moisture is abundant, what the lush forest vegetation favors and causes frequent fog. Average falls here in 2079 mm of rainfall per year (so-called orographic, related by the relief rain).

Considered landscape outweighs the "green karst ", that is, on the rocks of limestone and dolomite remains a thin humus layer whose chemical composition and depth mainly corresponds to the beech, juniper and fir cultures, the bottom configuration and wind direction enough moisture or. rainfall Board so that all together gives a nearly closed vegetated landscape. The Gorski Kotar has a mountainous relief of the convex outwardly curved type. The concave shapes slow the momentum of the air masses, while the convex speedup. The constant air flow here characterizes the state of the atmosphere by the mixture of continental and maritime air masses.

In Gorski Kotar is also the ski and recreation area of Bjelolasica, the highest mountain of the same name of the area and the National Park Risnjak.

The largest places in Gorski Kotar are Delnice, Ravna Gora and Vrbovsko.

The Kamačnik River

The Kamačnik path

Village in Gorski Kotar