Cozia National Park | |
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Parcul Național Cozia | |
IUCN category II (
national park) | |
![]() The Cozia Massif | |
Location within
Romania | |
Location |
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Nearest city | Băile Olăneşti |
Coordinates | 45°22′01″N 24°15′54″E / 45.367°N 24.265°E [1] |
Area | 17,100 hectares (42,000 acres) |
Established | 2000, designation 1966 |
Website | www.cozia.ro |
The Cozia National Park ( Romanian: Parcul Național Cozia) ( national park category II IUCN) is located in south-central Romania, in the northeast part of Vâlcea County, in the administrative territory of localities Brezoi, Călimănești, Racoviţa, Perișani, Sălătrucel and Berislăvești. [2]
The National Park is located in the central-southern of the Southern Carpathians, in the south-eastern Lotru Mountains and the east of Căpățânii Mountains on the middle course of Olt River.
Cozia National Park with an area of 171 km2 [3] was declared a natural protected area by the Law Number.5 of March 6, 2000 (published in Romanian Official Paper, No.152 on April 12, 2000) [4] and represents a mountainous area with flora and fauna specific to the Southern Carpathians. Besides its peculiar aspect of flora elements, Cozia National Park has a good number of lichen species. Mustafa YAVUZ and Dr. Gülşah ÇOBANOĞLU from Turkey studied Lichen Flora of Cozia National Park in 2007 [5] In 2017, two old-growth forests were inscribed in the Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians and Other Regions of Europe nature site. [6]