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PROTECTED NATURAL HERITAGE
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UČKA NATURE PARK
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nature park
1999
160 km
2
area of the Učka massif and a part of the Ćićarija massif (including parts of the
County of Primorje-Gorski kotar – the town of Opatija and the municipalities of
Matulji, Lovran and Mošćenička Draga, and parts of the County of Istria – the
municipalities of Lanišće, Kršan and Lupoglav)
1,401 m (highest peak Vojak)
Tommasini or Učka bellflower, Alpine pasque-flower, auricula, Croatian barberry,
bladder cherry, yew, Alpine daphne, Balkan peony, Carniolan lily, various species of
orchids, etc.
karst garden dormouse, wild boar, chamois, roe deer, bear and numerous other
forest mammals, golden eagle, eagle owl, peregrine falcon, ortolan bunting, boreal
owl, Horvath’s rock lizard, Alpine or black salamander, clouded apollo, underground
Coleoptera beetle, many bat species, etc.
forest vegetation: forests of downy oak and oriental hornbeam, sub-Mediterranean
forest of sweet chestnut, hop-hornbeam forest, littoral and sub-alpine beech forest,
forest conifers: black pine, to a lesser extent spruce and larch, dwarf mountain
(mugo) pine in the peak area; grasslands, thickets, vegetation of rocks and screes,
weed and ruderal vegetation; vegetation of moist and fresh water habitats.
Učka Nature Park encompasses the canyon of Vela draga, which was put under
protection in 1963 and declared a geomorphological natural monument in 1998.