The Triglav Lakes Valley ( sl, Dolina Triglavskih jezer) is a rocky hanging

valley A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which will typically contain a river or stream running from one end to the other. Most valleys are formed by erosion of the land surface by rivers or streams ove ...

in the

Julian Alps The Julian Alps ( sl, Julijske Alpe, it, Alpi Giulie, , ) are a mountain range of the Southern Limestone Alps that stretch from northeastern Italy to Slovenia, where they rise to 2,864 m at Mount Triglav, the highest peak in Slovenia. A large p ...

Slovenia Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, an ...

, below the sheer sides of Mount Tičarica and Mount Zelnarica southwest of Triglav. The valley is also called the Seven Lakes Valley (), although there are ten and not seven lakes in the valley. It is above the

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and is geologically alpine karst; therefore it has also been termed the Sea of Stone Valley ().

Lakes

The lowest lake is the Black Lake () at an elevation of above sea level; it is above the rocky slope of the Komarča Crag. The

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(''Ichthyosaura alpestris''),

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to the Alps, lives in it. Below Mount Tičarica (elevation ) there are two interconnected lakes known as the Double Lake (). At an elevation of lies the Big Lake () or the Lake Ledvica (literally: Lake Kidney; ). It has the shape of a kidney and is the largest and the deepest of these lakes. The highest is the Podstenje Lake (), which is located at an elevation of .

Mountain huts

There are two mountain lodges in the Triglav Lakes Valley. The Triglav Lakes Lodge (; ), owned by the Ljubljana-Matica Hilwalking Club, is located at its southern edge, whereas the Central Sava Lodge at Prehodavci (; ), operated by the

Radeče Radeče (; german: Ratschach''Leksikon občin kraljestev in dežel zastopanih v državnem zboru,'' vol. 6: ''Kranjsko''. 1906. Vienna: C. Kr. Dvorna in Državna Tiskarna, pp. 88–89.) is a small town in the Lower Sava Valley in eastern Slovenia. ...

Alpine Club, is located at its northern edge. They are two hours apart. They may be accessed from

Bohinj Bohinj (; german: Wochein), or the Bohinj Valley ( sl, Bohinjska dolina) or Bohinj Basin ( sl, Bohinjska kotlina), is a 20 km long and 5 km wide basin in the Julian Alps, in the Upper Carniola region of northwestern Slovenia. It is trav ...

over the Komna Plateau (5 hours to the Triglav Lakes Lodge), from Bohinj over the Komarča Crag (3 hours), from the Blato Pasture (3:30 hours), from Trenta (3 hours to the Central Sava Valley Lodge, and over Trebiščina Pasture (3:30 hours to the Central Sava Valley Lodge).

Cultural significance

The designer

Marko Pogačnik Marko Pogačnik (born 11 August 1944) is a Slovenian artist and author. Background Pogačnik studied at the Academy of Arts in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, where he graduated in 1967. He was a co-founder of the neo-avantgarde artistic ...

stylised the Triglav Lakes Valley in the Slovenian coat of arms with two wavy lines under the silhouette of Triglav.

References

External links

* {{coord, 46, 20, N, 13, 47, E, source:kolossus-frwiki, display=title Valleys in Upper Carniola Valleys of the Julian Alps Triglav National Park Sava basin Municipality of Bohinj Municipality of Bovec