The Skocjan Caves are a large limestone cave system in the Kras (Karst) plateau of southwestern Slovenia, a region whose own name gave rise to the general geological term "karst." The caves formed as the Reka River, after flowing on the surface from the nearby mountains, sinks underground at Skocjan and has spent roughly two million years dissolving a passage through Cretaceous and Eocene limestone, carving one of the largest known underground river canyons in the world along with vast chambers and waterfalls. The site was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986 in recognition of its exceptional karst geomorphology and remains an active site of ongoing underground river erosion.
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Protected StatusUNESCO World Heritage Site 1 Connections
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- Also in Geography Atlas: Slovenia, found in there.
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1. Škocjan Caves (Wikipedia)
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n Slovenia. Škocjan Caves was included on UNESCO’s list of natural and cultural World Heritage Sites in 1986. Škocjan Caves is a significant underground phenomenon on the Kar
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