Plav Municipality (
Montenegrin, ) is one of the
municipalities of Montenegro
The ''municipalities'' ( cnr-Latn-Cyrl, opštine, општине, separator=" / ", singular: cnr-Latn-Cyrl, opština, општина, separator=" / ", label=none) are the first level administrative subdivisions of Montenegro. The country is div ...
. It is located in
Northern Montenegro
Northern Montenegro ( cnr-Latn-Cyrl, Śever Crne Gore, Ćевер Црне Горе, separator=" / ", ), is one of three statistical regions in Montenegro. It encompasses the sparsely populated mountainous part of Montenegro. It is bordered by B ...
. The center is the town of
Plav. In February 2014, the southwestern third of the municipality seceded to form the
Gusinje Municipality.
Geography
Plav is located at the foot of the
Accursed Mountains
The Accursed Mountains (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, Prokletije, Проклетије, separator=" / ", ; both translated as "Cursed Mountains"), also known as the Albanian Alps (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, Albanski Alpi, Албански Алпи, separator=" / ", li ...
, adjacent to the springs of the river
Lim. The area contains many lakes and the most known is
Lake Plav, one of the largest in the region. The lakes Hrid and
Visitor
A visitor, in English and Welsh law and history, is an overseer of an autonomous ecclesiastical or eleemosynary institution, often a charitable institution set up for the perpetual distribution of the founder's alms and bounty, who can interve ...
are mountain lakes, and Visitor is noted for its
floating island
A floating island is a mass of floating aquatic plants, mud, and peat ranging in thickness from several centimeters to a few meters. Sometimes referred to as ''tussocks'', ''floatons'', or ''suds'', floating islands are found in many parts of t ...
. Plav is also renowned for its
karst
Karst () is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble carbonate rocks such as limestone and Dolomite (rock), dolomite. It is characterized by features like poljes above and drainage systems with sinkholes and caves underground. Ther ...
wells, among which are the
Ali Pasha of Gucia Springs and Oko Skakavica.
Settlements
The Plav Municipality is divided into 5 communes (''mjesna zajednica'') with 22 settlements (''naselje''). The communes of the Plav Municipality:
Brezojevica (
Brezojevica), Plav (
Plav, Babino Polje,
Bogajići, Budojevice, Jara, Jasenica, Komorača, Korita,
Meteh,
Đurička Rijeka, Hakanje,
Hoti,
Skić and
Vojno Selo), Murino (
Murino,
Gornja Rženica,
Mašnica and
Pepići), Prnjavor (
Prnjavor), Velika:
Velika and Novšiće).
City Assembly (2022–2026)
Demographics
The town of Plav is the administrative centre of the Plav Municipality, which in 2011 had a population of 9,081. The town of Plav itself has 3,717 residents.
Population history:
*1948 - 15,764
*1953 - 17,330
*1961 - 18,913
*1971 - 19,542
*1981 - 19,560
*1991 - 19,305
*2003 - 13,805
*2011 - 13,108
Gallery
File:Plav.jpg, Town of Plav
File:Lake Plav1.JPG, Lake Plav
File:WK402 WikipediaWeekendTirana2015 Visitor 077.JPG, Prokletije massif
File:Plav - Redzepagica Kula - tvrz muslimskeho hodnostare.jpg, Old Town of Plav
References
Municipalities of Montenegro
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