National Park
Kozara
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and HerzegovinaRoe Deer · Wild Boar
See parkThe oldest national park in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the primary forest of Perućica, one of the last in Europe.
Area
173 km²
Protection category
IUCN II
Parque nacional —
Designated in
1962
It holds Perućica, one of the last primary forests in Europe, and the highest peak in Bosnia
Declared in 1962, Sutjeska protects the forest of Perućica, one of the last two or three genuinely virgin primary forests surviving anywhere in Europe, with spruce and beech several centuries old that have never been felled. The park was also the setting in 1943 of the Battle of the Sutjeska, one of the bloodiest engagements between Tito's Yugoslav partisans and Axis forces during the Second World War, commemorated by a large-scale brutalist monument in the Tjentište valley.
4 dive sites within 300 km are also shown.
Ecosystems found in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where Sutjeska National Park lies.
Where can I dive near here?
92 km away
98 km away
117 km away
Which other parks are like this one?
Same country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Same country: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Same type of protected area: National Park
Based on what we already know about this park.
Region
The Balkans
Climate
Temperate, Mediterranean, Mountain
Threatened:,
159 km away
Same type of protected area: National Park
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