Kysuce Protected Landscape Area

The protected landscape area Kysuce (Slovak Chranena krajinná oblasť Kysuca ) is a nature reserve in the north- west of Slovakia, which lies in the traditional landscape Kysuca, and is composed of two separate parts. The area lies mainly in the political district Žilinský ( Okresy Bytča Čadca, Dolny Kubin and Žilina), with smaller parts in the Trenčín Region ( Okresy Považska Bystrica and Púchov ). The conservation area is bordered by the Czech Beskydy protected landscape area, the Polish Żywiec Landscape Park and the Slovak landscape conservation area Horna Orava.

The seat of government is located in Čadca.

Geography

The conservation area is located north and northwest of Žilina in the landscape Kysuca and is formed of two distinct parts. The whole area lies in the outer Western Carpathians and is formed by flysch. The western part is in the mountains and Moravian-Silesian Beskydy Javorníky as well as in the mountains Turzovská Highlands and touched the border the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The highest mountain is the Velky Javorník ( 1071 m nm). The eastern part is in the Beskids, and is occupied by mountains and Kysucké Beskydy mountains Kysucká highlands; it touches the Slovak- Polish border. The highest elevation is the Velka Raca ( 1236 m nm).

As a result of the late medieval Wallachian colonization, the area has a mosaic character, alternating with small settlements with old folk architecture as well as meadows, fields and forests.

The area belongs to the catchment area of the Waag, mostly fed by the tributary Kysuca. Only in Javorník Mountains opens a part of the streams directly into the Waag. Due to the impermeable Flyschgesteins and the relatively advanced deforestation of the outflow is relatively fast, which can sometimes lead to local flooding.

Flora and Fauna

Compared to other long-distance Slovak conservation areas, the area of the PLA Kysuce with about more than 50%, relatively little is wooded. Oaks, there are very rare, however, are dominant houses and artificially introduced spruce monocultures. The original mixed forests are located only in the higher border areas. The area is home to several peat and bog localities where plants such as Sundew, ostrich fern, Turk's cap and Columbine, and a number of the family of orchids.

So far, more than 200 species of vertebrates are known. Brown bear, wolf and lynx - through the area, the western border of the distribution of large predators Slovakia runs. A Carpathian endemic species is the Carpathian newt.

Tourism

Some attractions in the area of ​​the PLA Kysuce are the source of oil of Korňa, sandstone spheres, such as in Klokočov, the Forest Railway Vychylovka with hairpins on the Beskids and the nearby Museum of Kysuce village, an open air museum ( Nová Bystrica ).

Special Conservation

In large protected territory encompasses the following more specific protected areas:

  • Národné Prírodné rezervácie (NPR, National Nature Reserves ) Maly Polom ( 86.1 ha, since 1981)
  • Velka Raca ( 313.0 ha, 1976)
  • Velky Javorník ( 13,95 ha, 1967)
  • Korniansky ropný PRAMEN ( 0,171 ha, since 1973)
  • Vychylovské prahy ( 0.383 ha, 1973)
  • Vychylovské scaling ( 26.72 ha, 1983)
  • Čertov ( 84.62 ha, since 1993)
  • Čierna Lutiša ( 26,35 ha, 1962)
  • Hričovec ( 21.12 ha, 1988)
  • Javorinka ( 35.52 ha, 1993)
  • Klokočovské scaling ( 6.12 ha, 1973)
  • Klubinský Potok ( 0.826 ha, 2000)
  • Polkova (5.08 ha, 1993)
  • Velky Polom ( 47.58 ha, 1993)
  • Zajačkova lúka (3.98 ha, 1979)
  • Chmúra ( 0,409 ha, 2001)
  • Beskydy Dark Sky Park ( light protected area, across borders with the Czech Republic 31,000 ha, since 2013)
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