Sumava Biosphere Reserve - Frymburk, Czech Republic
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N 48° 39.665 E 014° 09.953
33U E 438578 N 5390116
Šumava Biosphere encompasses the Sumava National Park known as the "Green Heart of Europe".
Waymark Code: WMP6F7
Location: Jihočeský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 07/09/2015
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This sign is located in centre of Frymburk town. The Frymburk is mainly a resort town that is visited by scores of tourists each year. The main attractions this site include the Šumava National Park and the Lipno (
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The sign shows a map of the Sumava Biosphere Reserve and also describes the main tourist centers of Sumava National Park. In the upper right corner of the sign is the "Program on Man and the Biosphere" logo.
The Sumava Biosphere Reserve includes a substantial part of the north-east facing Bohemian Forest, a large Hercynian middle-mountain range that straddles the border between the Czech Republic, Germany and Austria. The biosphere reserve is situated adjacent to the Bayerischer Wald Biosphere Reserve in Germany. The Bohemian Forest is in the most extensive continuous forest of Central Europe. Three principal zonal vegetation units can be distinguished: belts of species-rich beech forests, acidic montane beech forests, and climax spruce forests. Forests, meadows and pastures as well as bogs are characteristic of Sumava. Within the biosphere reserve, the Šumava Peatlands were designated as a Ramsar site in 1993, including mountain raised bogs, valley bogs, waterlogged spruce forests and riparian wetlands of the River Vltava.
Tourism in the Sumava Biosphere Reserve and National Park is a main source of income for the about 24,500 inhabitants of the biosphere reserve (1989). The area was part of the tourism monitoring project in Czech national parks (1997 - 2001).
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The Sumava is popular tourist area - there is many opportunities for sports (hiking (
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