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Plitvi¢ka jezera — Prelaz sa gornjih jezera k donjima i slapovi

PALIT WINCH, ID ZIEIRUS

U nizu prirodnih ljepota kojima Jugoslavija obiluje napose se ističu Plitvička jezera.

U kršnom terenu u kome se ona nalaze očekivali bi gole stijene ı medju njima tu ı tamo male količine vode koje se samo periodično pojavljaju, a kad tamo na naše najveće začudjenje iznenadjuju nas guste šume i velike mase vode koje formiraju mnoga jezera i yodopade i time pruzaju vrlo raznoligne slike.

U neraynoj liniji od nekih osam kilometara u nadmorskoj visini od 600 metara nanizano je 16 jezera. Usljed toga Sto je izmedju navise položenog jezera Prose“ i najnizeg „Kozjak“ visinska razlika od ıro metara, ta se Jezera izlijevaju preko prirodnih zapreka jedno u drugo i stvaraju prekrasne slapove raznih oblika ı jakosti. Po karakteru svoje okoline dijele se u dvije velike skupine: u gornja ı donja. Medju gornja se broje: Proićansko, Ciganovac, Okrugljak, Batinovac, Veliko jezero, Malo jezero, Vir, Galovac, Milino jezero, Jezerce, Burget i Kozjak, a medju donja: Milanovac, Gavanovac, Kaludjerovac ı Novakovića brod. Najveća izmedju njih su Prožćamsko jezero i Kozjab. Gornja jezera su okružena bujnim šumama i imadu dosta razvijene obale. Donja jezera su uslijed kamenite podloge i gole okoline

TEEPE ACES sO: SPE VALE

Amongst the many places of natural beauty in which Yugoslavia is so rich there may be especially mentioned the lakes of Plitvice.

In the stony grounds, where these lakes lay one would expect naked walls and among them here and there small spots of water, which would appear only periodically, but to our great astonishment one is surprized by dense forests and masses of water, which forms many lakes and cascades and offers so the most varied views.

In a curved line of about 8 kilometres (5 miles) in a height of about 600 metres (2000 ft.) above sea-level there are ranked 16 lakes. Because there is a difference in height of 110 metres (360 ft.) between the highest placed lake ,,Prosée“ and the lowest »Kozjak“, these lakes fall over natural hinderances one into the other and form most beautiful cascades of various shapes and intensity. According to the character of their surroundings they may be divided in two big groups, the upper lakes: Prosée, Ciganovac, Okruglijak, Veliko Jezero, Malo Jezero, Vir, Galovac, Milino Jezero, Jezerce and Kozjak, and the lower lakes: Milanovac, Gavanovac, Kaludjerovac and Novakoviéa Brod. The two biggest are Pros¢e and Kozjak. The upper lakes are surrounded by exuberant forests and have rather developped shores.