Discover Serbia: The Tara National Park

House on the Drina River / Kućica na steni / Stenčica / Serbia 
by Irene Becker

The Tara National Park in the mountainous region of western Serbia was designated a national park in 1981. The 19,200-hectare park, with administrative offices in Bajina Basta, is spread out over a group of mountain peaks in the Tara, Crni vrh, Stolac and Zvezda ranges,  the Canyon of Drina with Perucac  and outskirts of Bajina Basta. National park covers a large bend in the Drina River bordering Bosnia.

Zaovine Lake / Заовинско језеро / Tara National Park / Serbia
by Irene Becker 

Discover Serbia: Special Natures Reserve Uvac

Southwestern Serbia: The canyon of the Uvac River by Dragoljub Zamurovic 

"Uvac" Special Nature Reserve is a Ist category protected natural asset. 

It is situated in south-western Serbia in the region of Stari Vlah-Raška high plateau, between Mt.Zlatar in the Southwest and Mt. Javor in the Northeast. "Uvac" Special Nature Reserve occupies the territory of 5525 ha in Nova Varoš Municipality and 2018 ha in Sjenica Municipality, 7543 ha in total. Minimum altitude in the reserve is 760m above sea level, and maximum 1322 m.

Meandri Uvca by  Aleksandar Brajovic

Major morphological feature of the reserve is the Uvac River canyon valley including the valleys of its tributaries. The special value of canyon parts of the river valley are curving meanders. Relative height of meander heads is 100m at places.