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Körös-Maros Nemzeti Park
Size of protected area: 6411 hectares are highly protected out of the 50.134 hectare protected area.
Location: The national park comprises of thirteen separate areas, their location is explained in their detailed description.
Visiting: Different regulations apply to each area. Most areas can be visited feely, but there are parts which can only be visited with a permit and /or a guide. More information is available in the center of the national park (Szarvas, Anna-liget).

Túzok (Otis tarda)

The central part of the Carpathian basin, especially the eastern parts of the Alföld – sinking continuously since the Pleistocene – have been periodically flooded, therefore they have been wet, marshy areas from time immemorial. The water courses starting from the submountain regions of the cool, wet Carpathians, expanded into rivers on the way and coming to the flat lands of the Alföld they slowed down and spread the deposits they had collected through the several hundred kilometers. Meandering like this in the raising and falling relief, the rivers slowly went through the area, and a good deal of the immense wooded steppes were flooded and they were transformed into marshes with groves. Each of the national parks in Hungary located in the Alföld (Hortobágy, Kiskunság, and the Körös–Maros national parks) stresses the importance of preserving the remnants of the former water lands and the features of their landscape. Nevertheless, the landscape formed by the river-system of the Körösök and the Maros is in a special position. The south-tiszántúl area is surrounded by three rivers the Tisza, the Körösök and the Maros. The value of this area, besides its captivating landscape- and historical features, is owing to the fact that while it is closed on the west, it is open to the east towards Transylvania. In addition, the invigorating water of the rivers also facilitates this connection. Therefore certain eastern, Transylvanian species of flora and fauna have their westernmost habitats here in the Körös–Maros valley and in the Alföld scenery surrounded by the two rivers. In addition these species occur in associations very different from that of their original habitat. In this way this 'multicultural' organization is regarded as unique. The national park is also valuable in terms of agriculture, therefore they preserve the last small areas of natural habitats of intensive cultivation from vanishing.
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