This park is located in the Pirin Mountains, Blagoevgrad Province, in southwestern Bulgaria near Macedonia, and it has a core protection area of 401 km2. At elevations between 1,008 and 2,914 m, the site contains unique and diverse Balkan endemic landscapes with glacial lakes, waterfalls, caves and predominantly coniferous forests. More than 70 glacier lakes are dispersed among the towering and steep mountains, allowing the site to be the home to hundreds of rare local species, many of which are representative living plant fossils of the Balkans from the Pleistocene Period.
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(2020). Pirin National Park, Bulgaria. In: Chen, A., Ng, Y., Zhang, E., Tian, M. (eds) Dictionary of Geotourism. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2538-0_1899
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