Durmitor

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**Durmitor National Park**¹
**UNESCO World Heritage Site**

State Party	Montenegro (Not yet a State Party to the World Heritage Convention)
Type	Natural
Criteria	vii, viii, x
Identification	#100
Region²	Europe and North America
Inscription History
Formal Inscription:	1980 4th WH Committee Session
Extension/s	2005
WH link:	http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/100
1 Name as officially inscribed on the WH List 2 As classified officially by UNESCO

Durmitor National Park
IUCN Category II (National Park)
Location:	Montenegro
Coordinates:	43°08′″N, 19°01′″E
Area:	390 km²
Established:	1952

Durmitor is a mountain and the name of a national park in Montenegro. It reaches a height of 2,522 meters.

1 Name
2 National park
3 Tourism
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Name

Name Durmitor is probably derived from Balkan Romance (some Romanian/Vlach dialect), and it means "sleeping" (cognate with English dormitory). There are similarly named mountains such as Visitor (< visător, "dreaming") and Cipitor (< aţipitor, "sleeping") across ex-Yugoslavia.^[1] Another etymology could be from Celtic meaning "mountain with water".^{[citation needed]}

[edit] National park

The Durmitor National Park, created in 1952, includes the massif of Durmitor, the canyons of Tara, Sušica and Draga rivers and the higher part of the canyon plateau Komarnica, covering the area of 390 km².

It was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1980.

A part of the National park Durmitor is also the river Tara River Canyon, 80 km long and 1,300 m deep, second largest in the world, just behind Grand Canyon in Arizona.

[edit] Tourism

Durmitor mountain is the centre of Montenegrin mountain tourism. The tourist facilities are concentrated around the town of Žabljak.

During the winter, main activities on Durmitor are skiing and, increasingly, snowboarding. In the summer, the activities shift to mountaineering and recreational tourism. One of the most prominent attraction of Durmitor mountain are 18 glacial lakes, best known being Crno Lake.