Inanimate Nature

Nature has endowed the Triglav National Park with diverse forms and phenomena of inanimate nature. The park can pride itself on diverse bedrock composition and the richness of fossilized life specimens.
Its surface forms are highly diverse and numerous, comprising high-mountain ridges with towering peaks, glacier U-shaped valleys, and a treasure chest of karst surface forms.

The underground has been dramatically transformed by underground water flows. The underground tunnels of some caves extend deep into the heart of mountain ranges, while in other places abysses drop to incredible depths. The number of karst caves has been increasing, and has so far amounted to 600.The park is also famous for its hydrological assets, such as the main watercourses of the Soča, Sava Bohinjka and Sava Dolinka, and numerous torrents. The rivers have cut deep into the surface, carving picturesque ravines, gorges, canyons and troughs. In karstic glacier-shaped depressions mountain lakes have formed. Although few in numbers, mountain lakes are among the most attractive natural features of the park: the three Križ lakes at the Kriški podi plateau, then Lake Krn and the lakes Dupeljsko jezero (the Duplje Lake) and Jezero v Lužnici (Lake in Lužnica) in the vicinity of Krn, Jezero na Planini pri Jezeru (Lake on Planina pri Jezeru), the lakes in the Triglav Lakes Valley and the largest of them – Lake Bohinj.

Through neither the highest nor the mightiest waterfall in Slovenia is among the waterfalls of TNP, many have become well-frequented (the Savica Fall, the Peričnik Fall, the Upper and Lower Martuljek Falls, the Šum Fall in Vintgar). Hydrological heritage also includes raised bogs in the depressions of the Pokljuka plateau. The only Slovenian glacier, the Triglav Glacier, has unfortunately shrunk in size so that it hardly deserves its name.