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Introduction Jeseníky

Address and contacts: Správa CHKO Jeseníky (Administration of Jeseníky PLA)  Šumperská 93 790 01 Jeseník Phone: +420 584 458 659 Fax: +420 584 458 646 E-mail: jeseniky@ suffix nature.cz www.jeseniky.ochranaprirody.cz

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The Jeseníky PLA is spread out in the very northern part of Moravia and the Czech part of Silesia and on the frontier between the Moravia-Silesia  and Olomouc regions and in the Bruntál, Jeseník and Šumperk districts.

The area includes Hrubý Jeseníka and adjacent parts of Hanušovická and Zlatohorská uplands. The relief corresponds to broken mountainous landscape with deep valleys and gradually rounded peaks. From a geological point of view the area is constituted mostly of acid rocks with few nutrients. The dominant  soil type is cambisol podsol  with mainly humus-ferruginous podsol in high-altitude localities, which is waterlogged and boggy in some parts.

Vegetation is represented by herbaceous-rich and acid mountain beech forests, in high-altitude localities indigenous spruce, alpine coenosis and raised bogs dominate. Dwarf pine is not one of  the indigenous woody species and  does not occur here. This  is one cause of the immensely rich biodiversity of some localities in the alpine zone. The area contains  the richest botanical locality in the Czech Republic, Velká Kotlina, which has about and it has about 450  plant super-species.

The climate is quite cold. The high-altitude locality is one of the  coldest  in the Czech Republic (on Praděd peak there is annual precipitation 1440 mm and an average temperature 0.9°C). Anemographic systems are a significant feature and had a significant  effect on the emergence of glacial cirque and on its flora diversity.

Basic data: Area: 740 km2 Location: 49°54´ - 50°18´ N, 17°00´ - 17°26´ E Altitude: 339 - 1492 m (Praděd) Designation: Ministry of Culture order (No. 9886/1969) Small-scale protected areas in the PLA:      - 4 National nature reserves      - 18 Nature reserves      - 6 Nature monuments Kralický Sněžník national nature reserve and Na Špičáku, Ptačí hora, Rešovské vodopády, Velký Roudný, Venušiny misky, Jeskyně Na Pomezí and Borový national nature monuments (lying outside the PLA) are also administred by the Administration of Jeseníky PLA.

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