Latorica Protected Landscape Area () is the second lowland protected landscape area in

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. It is located in the south-eastern Slovakia, in the

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and

Michalovce Michalovce (; , , Romani language, Romani: ''Mihalya'', Yiddish language, Yiddish: מיכאלאָווצע ''Mikhaylovets'' or ''Mykhaylovyts''; ) is a town on the Laborec river in eastern Slovakia. Originally named after the Archangel St Michael ...

districts.

Geography, geology and ecology

The park is located around the Slovak part of

Latorica Latorica (; , pronounced: ''Latoritsa''; , translit.: ''Latorytsia'') is a river in the watershed of the Danube. Its source is in the Ukrainian Carpathians (Eastern Carpathian Mountains), near the village . It flows from Ukraine (156.6 km) ...

river and around lower part of

Ondava The Ondava is a river in eastern Slovakia, the northern source river of the Bodrog. Its source is in the Low Beskids (Eastern Carpathian Mountains), near the village Nižná Polianka, close to the border with Poland. The Ondava flows south throug ...

and

Laborec The Laborec (; ) is a river in eastern Slovakia that flows through the districts of Medzilaborce, Humenné, and Michalovce in the Košice Region, and the Prešov Region. The river drains the Laborec Highlands. It is long and its basin size is . ...

rivers. The landscape area consists of the system of riverbeds and arms, surrounded by alluvial forest and wetlands. The most noticeable phenomenon of the PLA is the rare water and swamp

biocenose A biocenosis (UK English, biocoenosis, also biocenose, biocoenose, biotic community, biological community, ecological community, life assemblage), coined by Karl Möbius in 1877, describes the interacting organisms living together in a habita ...

, unique in Slovakia. A part of river's watershed ("Ramsar site No. 606", 44.05 km²) was added to the Ramsar list of wetlands of international importance since 1993.

Fauna

There were recorded 82 species of molluscs in the Latorica PLA: 36 species of terrestrial gastropods and 46 species of freshwater molluscs.Čejka T. & Černecký J., 2021
Molluscs (Mollusca) of the Latorica Protected Landscape Area (Eastern Slovakia)
– In: Invertebrates of the Latorica Protected Landscape Area, Panigaj Ľ., Tajovský K. & Mock A. (eds) SNC SR Banská Bystrica and Administration of the Latorica PLA Trebišov, pp. 32–61. Due to the location and character of this PLA, the area is used by waterfowl, not only for nesting, but also, in the case of migratory birds, for short rests.

References

External links

Protected landscape area Latorica
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Slovakia.travelLatorica Protected Landscape Area at The Slovak Nature Conservancy
Protected areas of Slovakia IUCN Category V Ramsar sites in Slovakia Protected areas established in 1990 1990 establishments in Slovakia Geography of Košice Region Tourist attractions in Košice Region {{Protected-area-stub