Croatia Guide

The subsequent Mountains to the west is built from limestone. Due to the high water solubility of the rocks are large parts of the Dinaric Verkarstung dominated by mountains. Several rivers flow and seep into underground cave systems further. The mountain consists of several parallel mountain chains. In this region there is the National Park Plitvice Lakes. Highest peak of the mountain region, about 20 percent of Croatian territory occupies, is the Dinara with a height of 1 838 meters, it runs on the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina.

To the Adriatic region comprises about 30 percent of the land. This region extends from the Istrian peninsula in the north to the (Montenegrin) Bay of Kotor. From the coast to the Dinaric mountain range extends along the Adriatic Sea landscape Dalmatia. The Dalmatian coast is far from a typical Canaliküste. The valleys of the Adriatic Sea inflowing rivers were nacheiszeitlichen by rising sea levels flooded. The cliff was thus its varied landscape. Upstream from the coast are numerous islands. Largest of these islands, each with slightly more than 400 square kilometers of Krk and Cres.

Inland reigns continental climate with hot summers and cold winters before. The average monthly temperature in summer to 23 ° C in winter around freezing. In the north-east of Croatia, the annual precipitation by 700 millimeters. Moist, it is essential to the Adriatic coast, where the climate is Mediterranean with mild, rainy winters (January funds by 7 ° C) and warm, sunny and very dry summers (July resources by 24 degrees C). On rainy richest are the coastal mountains with annual rainfall of up to 3 000 millimeters.