Misplaced Pages

Semenic-Caraș Gorge National Park

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
(Redirected from Semenic-Cheile Carașului National Park) National park in Romania
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (July 2016) Click for important translation instructions.
  • View a machine-translated version of the German article.
  • Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Misplaced Pages.
  • Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
  • You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Misplaced Pages article at ]; see its history for attribution.
  • You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Nationalpark_Semenic-Cheile_Carașului}} to the talk page.
  • For more guidance, see Misplaced Pages:Translation.
Semenic-Caraș Gorge National Park
Parcul Național Semenic-Cheile Carașului
IUCN category II (national park)
Semenic Mountains
Map showing the location of Semenic-Caraș Gorge National ParkMap showing the location of Semenic-Caraș Gorge National ParkLocation within Romania
LocationCaraș-Severin County
 Romania
Nearest cityAnina
Coordinates45°08′31″N 21°58′37″E / 45.142°N 21.977°E / 45.142; 21.977
Area35,664.80 hectares (88,129.6 acres)
Established2000
Websitewww.pnscc.ro%20www.pnscc.ro

The Semenic-Caraș Gorge National Park (Romanian: Parcul Național Semenic-Cheile Carașului) is a protected area (national park category II IUCN) situated in southwest Romania, in Caraș-Severin County.

Location

The Natural Park is located in the Anina Mountains [ro] and the Semenic Mountains [ro], a group of mountain included in the Banat Mountains. It is situated in the southwestern part of Romania, in the middle of Caraș-Severin County.

Description

The Semenic-Caraș Gorge National Park was declared a protected area by Law No. 5 of 6 March 2000 (published in Monitorul Oficial No. 152 on 12 April 2000). It features a typical karst and forest landscape and is characterised by its 300-year-old virgin beech forest, the only one in Europe.

The Park contains a number of nature reserves, including the Caraș Gorge (Cheile Carașului), the Caraș Springs (Izvoarele Carașului), and dripstone and other caves.

The Caraș Gorge is one of Romania’s longest, wildest and most beautiful, with rich flora and fauna, including the Semenic flower (Anntenaria dioica). It has many caves, some only accessible from underwater, with near-vertical limestone walls and so-called “kettles” on the upper Caraș. On the right bank of the Caraș, above the Caraș Gorge, are the ruins of the thirteenth-century Grat Castle. One of the most beautiful caves in this area, with diverse formations of stalactites and stalagmites, is the dripstone cave of Comarnic.

Twenty archaeological sites have been discovered in the Park.

Access

References

  1. eunis.eea.europa.eu – Semenic-Cheile Carașului National Park – coords; retrieved on June 06, 2012
  2. protectedplanet.net – Semenic-Cheile Carașului National Park – location; retrieved on June 06, 2012
  3. (in Romanian) cdep.ro - Legea Nr.5 din 6 martie 2000; retrieved on June 09, 2002
  4. "Die Karasch-Klamm und die Comarnic-Höhle". www.dfbb.ro. Retrieved 2022-08-08.
Protected areas of Romania
Biosphere reserves Rodnei Mountains
National parks
Nature parks
Nature reserves
Categories: