Desert landscapes of Croatia

**Jana** · 12-29-2021, 01:23 PM

**Jana** · 12-29-2021, 01:27 PM

**Jana** · 12-29-2021, 01:32 PM

ad for Croatian supercar Rimac Nevera was filmed in such landscape too

**Jana** · 01-06-2022, 01:41 PM

**~~Perunovsin~~** · 01-06-2022, 02:03 PM

Part of my soul is there...I can smell these photos

**~~Zohor~~** · 01-06-2022, 02:43 PM

Looks amazing, kinda surprized I haven't heard of such landscapes in Croatia

**Mejgusu** · 01-06-2022, 08:00 PM

That looks nice, are this landscapes natural or result of deforestation?

**StonyArabia** · 01-06-2022, 08:30 PM

Nothing more beautiful than the Desert

**alnortedelsur** · 01-06-2022, 10:11 PM

Beautiful!

I didn't know those arid landscapes existed in Croatia.

**Jana** · 01-07-2022, 09:24 AM

Originally Posted by Gecko

That looks nice, are this landscapes natural or result of deforestation?

Natural and human made combined, but this is present for extremely long period of time! Deforestation of dinaric karst already started in neolithic, and later continued, supported by cold northern bora wind that hits those shores!

The term karst derives from the Kras plateau, which is in the northwestern part of the area now known as the Dinaric Karst. The landscape consists mostly of Mesozoic carbonate rocks and stretches along the Adriatic Sea coast for a distance of 600 km. Although the region lies parallel to the sea, the Mediterranean temperature influence is limited to a narrow coastal belt, except for the amount of precipitation, which can reach 5000 mm yr−1. Forests belonging to the Mediterranean and Euro-Siberian – North American region, covered the primary Dinaric Karst. Human deforestation of the Karst began during the Neolithic period, 6500–6000 BC. Throughout history there have been two main reasons for deforestation; economic (the requirements of new land, pastures, timber use and trade), and social (local increases in population, mass migration, wars, raids). Mankind's perception of forest protection and preservation can be traced through documents going back to the 12th century. Reforestation is mentioned in some of them, but successful reforestation did not begin until the 1850s. Nowadays dense natural forests, extensive forest plantations, dry karst shrublands and also completely barren karst areas can all be found on the Dinaric Karst.