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Kampinos Forest Polish: Puszcza Kampinoska | |
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Location | Masovian Voivodeship,Poland |
Coordinates | 52°19′25″N20°35′54″E / 52.32361°N 20.59833°E |
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Events | Palmiry massacre |
Kampinos Forest (Polish : Puszcza Kampinoska) is a large forest complex located in Masovian Voivodeship, west of Warsaw in Poland.
It covers a part of the ancient valley of the Vistula basin, between the Vistula and the Bzura rivers. The forest began to form 14-11,000 years ago, at the very end of the Last Glacial Period. [1]
Once a forest covering 670 km2 of central Poland, it currently covers roughly 240 km2. In its present day form, most of the woodland is no longer old-growth forest but rather the remainders of a once-managed forest which is now left to grow on its own, with little human intervention. [2]
Most of the Kampinos forest is currently protected within Kampinos National Park (Kampinoski Park Narodowy).
Among the distinctive features of the area is a combination of sandy dunes and marshes, with dense pine and spruce forest.
The forest is a Natura 2000 EU Special Protection Area. [3]
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