Kolkheti National Park

Kolkheti National Park is a countrywide park located in Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti and Guria in the historic place of Colchis in western Georgia. The wetlands of Central Kolkheti are a Wetland of International Importance, a Ramsar Site. It lies on a coastal plain at the Black Sea, between the mouths of the Tikori and Supsa and spanning the districts of Zugdidi, Khobi, Lanchkhuti, Senaki and Abasha. The park became installed throughout 1998 and 1999 as part of Georgia’s Integrated Coastal Management Project, which turned into backed financially with the aid of the World Bank and the Global Environmental Facility. Kolkheti National Park changed into once a part of the tropical and partly subtropical region of the Tertiary duration that stretched over the continent of Eurasia.

Around 2000 BC, the primary Georgian nation, Kolkheti, higher called "Colchis," became created right here and become the vicinity wherein the primary Georgian coinage, “Kolkhuri Tetri,” became minted. Colchis capabilities in Greek mythology as the rim of the sector, and has been cited in historic chronicles throughout western Asia and eastern Europe in view that historical instances.