Pirin National Park
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How it came to be
The Pirin Mountains of south-western Bulgaria are a limestone range whose highest peak, Vihren, rises to 2,914 metres. Glaciers carved cirques and deep valleys holding more than 70 glacial lakes, and most of the forest is coniferous.
On 18 November 1962, 67.36 square kilometres were protected as Vihren National Park. The park was enlarged several times and renamed Pirin National Park. It was inscribed in 1983, but that boundary was judged inadequate, and in 2010 the site was extended to about 40,000 hectares.
The forests include Macedonian and Bosnian pine, and Baikushev's pine, Bulgaria's oldest tree at about 1,300 years, stands in the park. Since the 1980s ski development at Bansko and nearby resorts has pressed against the protected area.
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