UNESCO
National Park
Aggtelek
Hungary
HungaryCave-dwelling Bats · Troglobitic Fauna
See parkThe largest stretch of natural steppe (puszta) in Europe, with a herding and pastoral tradition centuries old.
Area
800 km²
Designated in
1973
Region
Central Europe (Great Hungarian Plain)
Hungary's first national park; it protects the largest surviving natural steppe in Central Europe
Declared in 1973, it was Hungary's first national park and protects the puszta, the largest surviving stretch of natural steppe in Central Europe, a landscape shaped over centuries by the traditional grazing of Hungarian grey cattle and semi-wild horses. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999 as a cultural landscape, in recognition of the thousand-year relationship between nomadic herders and the steppe ecosystem, and it is a critical migratory stop for more than 200,000 common cranes each autumn.
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Climate
Arid / desert, Temperate
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