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The Tatra Mountains are home to many species of animals: 54 tardigrades, 22 turbellarians, 100 rotifers, 22 copepods, 162 spiders, 81 molluscs, 43 mammals, 200 birds, 7 amphibians and 2 reptiles. The most notable mammals are the Tatra chamois , Alpine marmot , Tatra marmot , snow vole , brown bear , wolf , Eurasian lynx , red deer , roe deer ...
Tatra(s) National Park (Slovak: Tatranský národný park; abbr. TANAP) is one of the nine national parks in Slovakia. It is situated in North Central Slovakia in the Tatra Mountains. The park is important for protecting a diverse variety of flora and fauna, with many endemic species, including the Tatra chamois.
The Górale people ("highlanders"), a group of indigenous people with a distinctive traditional culture, are of the High Tatras and other mountain ranges and valleys in the Tatra Mountains region. Ludwig Greiner identified Gerlachovský štít (Gerlachovský Peak) (2,665 metres (8,743 ft)) as the highest summit of the Tatra Mountains , and the ...
The Tatra Mountains form a natural border between Poland to the north and Slovakia to the south, and the two countries have cooperated since the early 20th century on efforts to protect the area. Slovakia created an adjoining national park , and UNESCO later designated the area a transboundary biosphere reserve .
The Western Tatras (Slovak: Západné Tatry; Polish: Tatry Zachodnie) are mountains in the Tatras, part of the Carpathian Mountains, located on the Polish-Slovak border. The mountains border the High Tatras in the east, Podtatranská kotlina in the south, Choč Mountains in the west and Rów Podtatrzański in the north.
Mountain lakes of Czarny Staw pod Rysami and Morskie Oko seen from Rysy. Rysy ( Polish: [ˈrɨsɨ] ⓘ ; Slovak: [ˈrisi] ; German : Meeraugspitze , Hungarian : Tengerszem-csúcs ) is a mountain in the crest of the High Tatras , eastern part of the Tatra Mountains , lying on the border between Poland and Slovakia .
Ďumbier is the highest mountain at 2,042 m AMSL. Its neighbour Chopok (2,024 m) is accessible by a chairlift, and it is the most visited place in the Low Tatras. Other peaks in the western part include Dereše (2,004 m) and Chabenec (1,955 m). The highest peak in the eastern part is Kráľova hoľa (1,946 m).
The park and its buffer zone cover the whole Low Tatras mountain range. The National Park covers an area of 728 km 2 and its buffer zone covers an area of 1,102 km 2 , which makes it the largest national park in Slovakia .