Krka

Description

The Krka National Park is located in the Šibenik-Knin County and covers an area of ​​109 km² of the most beautiful course of the Krka River and the lower course of the Čikola River.
The National Park is a vast, mostly unaltered area of ​​exceptional and multiple natural values, and includes one or more preserved or slightly altered ecosystems. Its purpose is primarily scientific, cultural, educational and recreational, and because of the visitors there are also tourist activities.

With the submerged part of the Krka estuary, it is about 72.5 km long and is the 22nd longest river in Croatia. It springs at the foot of the Dinara mountain, 3.5 km northeast of Knin. With seven travertine waterfalls and a total drop of 224 m, Krka is a natural and karst phenomenon. The travertine waterfalls of the Krka River are a fundamental phenomenon of this river.

Already in the middle of the 20th century, the need to legally protect the Krka River and its river was recognized due to the exceptional natural values ​​that need to be preserved. The initiative to declare the Krka River a national park was launched in 1971, when a spatial plan was drawn up called the Krka National Park: a spatial development plan. On January 24, 1985, the Parliament of the Socialist Republic of Croatia declared the area from the old Croatian fortifications of Trošenj and Nečven to the Šibenik Bridge, including three and a half kilometers of the Čikola River, with a total area of ​​142 km², a national park. Due to four urban places (Skradin, Bilice, Raslina and Zaton), construction of the Zagreb - Split highway and development of tourism and other economic activities in the area, the Croatian Parliament revised the boundaries of the Park in 1997 with the Act Amending the Krka National Park Act. . The southern border of the Park has been moved upstream to the Skradin Bridge, and the northern almost to Knin. The border of the National Park "Krka" stretches 50 km along the upper and middle course of the river Krka (two kilometers downstream from Knin to Skradin) and the lower course of Čikola (including the mouth and 3.5 km of the river canyon), in the towns of Knin, Drniš, Skradin and Šibenik and the municipalities of Ervenika, Kistanja and Promina.