Pindus National Park

Pindus National Park additionally called Valia Calda that means the Warm Valley in Aromanian, is a country wide park in mainland Greece, situated in an remoted mountainous region on the outer edge of West Macedonia and Epirus, inside the northeastern a part of the Pindus mountain variety. It become established in 1966 and covers a place of 6,927 hectares. The park's middle zone, 3,360 hectares, covers the best a part of the Valia Calda valley and the slopes of the encompassing peaks. The national park has an elevation range from 1,076 to 2,177 metres and is characterised by means of dense forests of European black pine and common beech, rocky ridges, numerous peaks over 2,000 metres, fast streams and mountain lakes.

The vicinity belong to the broader Pindus Mountains combined forests ecoregion and is a consultant part of Pindus mountain variety. Moreover, it belongs to the Natura 2000 ecological network of blanketed areas and is one of the three places in Greece that hosts a population of bears. The park become established in 1966 and is taken into consideration one of the maximum essential protected areas for the protection of mountainous biodiversity and ecosystem integrity on the national stage. The national park is certainly one of three areas in Greece that hosts a populace of Eurasian brown bears Ursus arctos arctos that is considered a conservation priority species. The place itself is likewise referred to as undergo park.