Krka

The Krka National Park was proclaimed a national park in 1985; it is the seventh national park in Croatia. It is located in the Šibenik and Knin county, and occupies an area of 111 km2 along the course of the Krka River, two kilometres downstream from Knin to Skradin, and the lower course of the Cikola.

The Krka River rises at the foot of Mt Dinara not far from Knin. With the drowned part of the mouth, it is about 72 km long. The total area of its basin is 2,088 km2. The mean annual flow across Skradinski buk (waterfall) is 55 m3/s, and when there are heavy rains in the hinterland this can rise to over 350 m3/s. Krka, with its seven travertine falls of Bilisca buk (22.4 m), Corica buk or Brljan (15.5 m), Manojlovacki slapovi (a series of falls 59.6 m high with a main step of 32 m), Rosnjak (8.4 m), Miljacka slap (23.8 m), Roski slap (25.5 m) and Skradinski buk (17 steps with a total height of 45.7 m), and a total drop of 242 m, is a phenomenon of nature and the karst.

The travertine, limestone sedimented from water, which builds the travertine curtains, sills, beards and other geomorphological forms, is the fundamental phenomenon and principal feature of the National Park. The falls are a biodynamic creation, the living travertine constantly growing today as well, through the sedimentation process