Haanja Landscape Conservation Area is a

nature park A nature park, or sometimes natural park, is a designation for a protected natural area by means of long-term land planning, sustainable resource management and limitation of agricultural and real estate developments. These valuable landscape ...

situated in

Võru County Võru County ( et, Võru maakond or ''Võrumaa''; vro, Võro maakund) is a county in southern Estonia. It is bordered by Valga County and Põlva County and is the only Estonian county bordering two countries - Latvia (Alūksne Municipality and ...

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

. Its area is 17040 ha. The protected area was designated in 1957 to protect areas and nature of

Haanja Parish Haanja Parish ( et, Haanja vald; vro, Haani vald) was a rural municipality in Võru County, southeastern Estonia. In 2017, it merged with Rõuge Parish, Mõniste Parish, Misso Parish, and Varstu Parish to create a new entity. It retained th ...

(including

Suur Munamägi Suur Munamägi (; translation "Great Egg Mountain") is the highest peak in Estonia (and the Baltic states), reaching above sea level. It is located near the village of Haanja, in Võru County in the south-eastern corner of Estonia, close to t ...

, Vällamägi and Rõuge lakes). In 1979, the protected area was redesigned to the landscape conservation area.

References

{{Nature reserves of Estonia Nature reserves in Estonia Geography of Võru County