Poprad Landscape Park | |
Alt Name: | Popradzki Park Krajobrazowy |
Iucn Category: | V |
Location: | Lesser Poland Voivodeship |
Coordinates: | 49.4435°N 20.7953°W |
Coords Ref: | [1] |
Area: | 54212ha |
Poprad Landscape Park (Popradzki Park Krajobrazowy) is a protected area (Landscape Park) in southern Poland, named after the Poprad river running through it.
The Park, with the total area of 54212ha, is one of the biggest landscape parks in the country, created in 1987. It lies within Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in the part of the Beskid mountain range called Western Carpathians south of Nowy Sącz, in the basin of the Poprad river with its picturesque gorge. It borders Slovakia.[2]