Sudety Wałbrzyskie Landscape Park (''Park Krajobrazowy Sudetów Wałbrzyskich'') is a
protected area
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(
Landscape Park) in south-western
Poland
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, established in 1998, covering an area of .
The park lies within
Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Lower Silesian Voivodeship (, ) in southwestern Poland, is one of the 16 Voivodeships of Poland, voivodeships (provinces) into which Poland is divided. It covers an area of and has a total population of 2,899,986.
It is one of the wealthiest ...
, in
Wałbrzych County (
Gmina Czarny Bór,
Gmina Głuszyca,
Gmina Mieroszów
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Gmina Mieroszów is an urban-rural gmina (administrative district) in Wałbrzych County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Its seat is the town of Mieroszów, which lies approximately south-west of Wałbrzych, and sou ...
).
There are no nature reserves or ecological lands in the park, but there are a dozen or so natural monuments, mainly protecting unique rock formations:
* Czerwone Skałki
* Małpia Skała
* Stożek Wielki
* Szczeliny Wiatrowe
* Zamkowa Góra
Gallery
File:Masyw Dzikowca 1.jpg, Winter
File:Masyw Dzikowca 6.jpg, Sunset over the Dzikowiec massif
A massif () is a principal mountain mass, such as a compact portion of a mountain range, containing one or more summits (e.g. France's Massif Central). In mountaineering literature, ''massif'' is frequently used to denote the main mass of an ...
File:Park Krajobrazowy Sudetów Wałbrzyskich - widok z zamku "Rogowiec".jpg, Summer
File:Rogowiec Castle 04.jpg
File:Park Krajobrazowy Sudetów Wałbrzyskich - skalna brama 03.jpg, The pass known as ''Skalna bram'' (Rock Gate)
File:Park Krajobrazowy Sudetów Wałbrzyskich - skalna brama 02.jpg, Rock Gate
References
External links
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Landscape parks in Poland
Parks in Lower Silesian Voivodeship
1998 establishments in Poland
Protected areas established in 1998
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