Durmitor

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Durmitor is a mountain and the name of a national park in Montenegro. It reaches a height of 2,522 meters.

Contents

• 1 Name
• 2 National park
• 3 External links
• 4 References

Name

Name Durmitor is probably derived from Balkan Romance (some Romanian/Vlach dialect), and it means "sleeping" (cognate with English dormitory). There are similarly named mountains such as Visitor and Cipitor across ex-Yugoslavia. [1] Another etymology could be from Celtic meaning "mountain with water". ^{[[Citing sources citation needed]]}

National park

The Durmitor National Park, created in 1952, includes the massif of Durmitor, the cantyns of Tara, Sušica and Draga rivers and the higher part of the canyon plateau Komarnica, covering the area of 39,000 ha.

It is enscribed twice with the World Heritage List: in 1977 river Tara area was inscribed as UNESCO reserve, and in 1980, Durmitor and river Tara were inscribed with UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

A part of the National park Durmitor is also the river Tara canyon, 80 km long and 1,300 m deep, second largest in the world, just bahind Grand Canyon in Colorado.

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External links

• [WCMC-UNEP]
• [Durmitor National Park]
• [Durmitor] (in Serbo-Croatian)
• [Official UNESCO website entry]
• [link]Rafting photos from TARA CANYON Montenegro

References

1. Room Adrian (2004) "Placenames of the World: Origins and Meanings of the Names for Over 5000 Natural Features" ISBN 0786418141 pg. 112

 

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