Vinatovača ( Serbian Cyrillic : Винатовача ) is an old beech forest in the central-east Serbia . It is the only rainforest in Serbia, left undisturbed for several centuries. It is located in the municipality of Despotovac and is placed under the state protection as the strict natural reserve , which covers an area of 0.37 km (0.14 sq mi).
12-567: Vinatovača is situated in the central Kučaj mountains in the Upper Resava region, at an altitude between 640 m (2,100 ft) and 800 m (2,600 ft). It is isolated and hard to reach which helped its preservation. It is believed that trees have not been cut in Vinatovača since c. 1650. Being under strict protection means not only that the trees that die of old age are not being cleared or removed, but even picking herbs or mushrooms
24-489: A "European rarity". 44°03′54″N 21°46′00″E / 44.064985°N 21.766722°E / 44.064985; 21.766722 Ku%C4%8Daj mountains Kučaj ( Serbian : Кучај , pronounced [kûtʃaj] ) is a mountain range in eastern Serbia . Its highest peak, Velika Tresta has an elevation of 1,284 meters above sea level. They belong to the Serbian extension of Carpathians , which separate
36-421: A dwindling population of domestic bees. Vinatovača proved to be a perfect habitat for the wild honeybees, which inhabit numerous hollow trunks. Several other localities rich in bees were documented, but Vinatovača was the largest. The rain forest is labeled as an "Eldorado" for biologists and geneticists, while International Union of Forest Research Organizations declared Vinatovača a "representative reserve" and
48-474: Is a town and municipality located in the Pomoravlje District of central Serbia. It is 130 kilometers southeast of Belgrade . Its name stems from Despot , a title of Serbian medieval prince Stefan Lazarević . As of 2022 census, the town has a total population of 3,595, while the municipality has a population of 18,278. The Serb Orthodox monastery of Manasija was built between 1406 -1418 and
60-650: Is forbidden. It is considered as an example of what central and eastern Serbia's natural look is. Beech trees are up to 45 m (148 ft) tall and some specimens are estimated to be over 350 years old. The forest was one of the research locations in the "SERBHIWE" project of the University of Belgrade 's Institute for Biological Research "Siniša Stanković". The scope of the project was to document habitats of wild honeybees in Serbia, in order to protect their natural environment and their gene pool in order to preserve
72-485: Is no mobile phone signal in the area, which the local tourist guides say is "probably a positive thing". There is also a stream water mill, "Mija's watermill" within the complex. It is built in 1918 and is still operational, though it is adapted into the tourist attraction, equipped with the objects from the century ago. This Serbia location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Despotovac Despotovac ( Serbian Cyrillic : Деспотовац )
84-569: Is one of the most significant monuments of Serbian culture, belonging to the "Resava school" ( Serbian architecture ) From 1929 to 1941, Despotovac was part of the Morava Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia . As of 2011 census results, the municipality had 22,995 inhabitants. The ethnic composition of the municipality: Aside from the town of Despotovac, the municipality includes the following settlements: The following table gives
96-431: Is situated at an elevation of 450 m (1,480 ft) and 20 km (12 mi) east of Despotovac . It is formed on the tufa rocks and the water falls into the 5 m (16 ft) deep lake. In August 2017 the waterfall was embellished with the color-changing decorative lights, becoming the first hydrology object in Serbia with such lights. The access roads are arranged with several restaurants but as of 2017 there
108-592: The Government of Serbia and Institute for Nature Protection began preliminary actions into creating a new national park , which would cover the mountainous Kučaj- Beljanica region. It is supposed to be the sixth and the largest national park in Serbia encompassing the Resava Cave, Lisine complex and some of the oldest, intact forest in the country, like the Vinatovača rainforest , which remained intact since
120-629: The ground in the canyon -type valley of Sklop. The waters springs from the karst spring Veliko Vrelo, forming a short stream of the same name which falls into the Resava. With the height of 25 m (82 ft), it was considered the highest waterfall in Serbia until the 1990s when the higher waterfalls were discovered on the Kopaonik and in the Visok region of the Stara Planina . The waterfall
132-490: The mid 17th century. The study on protection was finished in 2020. It concluded that the area is the most forested one in Serbia, and described it as the proper wilderness. The karst region is location of numerous sinking rivers : Veliki Buk (or Lisine) waterfall is located in the watershed of the Resava River in east Serbia. It is carved in the karst area, where the sinking river of Resava springs again from
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#1732780021665144-459: The valleys of Great Morava and Timok . The area is a plateau in form, of complex tectonic and morphological structure, subdivided by the river valleys. One of the main features is the Resava Cave . North of Resava Cave is the natural monument Lisine, which comprises two waterfalls, Veliko Vrelo and Veliki Buk. The Lisine hydro-complex and Resava Cave are under one administration. In 2017
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