Durmitor National Park

UNESCO World Heritage Site

Durmitor National Park
Name as inscribed on the World Heritage List
View of the Durmitor near Minin
Location	Montenegro
Type	Natural
Criteria	vii, viii, x
Reference	100
UNESCO region	Europe and North America
Inscription history
Inscription	1980 (4th Session)
Extensions	2005

The Durmitor (pronounced [durmǐtɔr] or [dǔrmitɔr]) is a massif that gave its name to a national park in northwestern Montenegro. The highest peak, Bobotov Kuk, reaches a height of 2,523 meters.

The massif is limited by the Tara River Canyon on the north, the Piva River Canyon on the west, and by the Komarnica River Canyon on the south. To the east, the Durmitor opens to a 1,500 m (4,921 ft) high plateau, called Jezerska Površ (Plateau of Lakes). The Sinjavina mountain is located to the east of Jezerska Površ plateau.

The Durmitor mountain range is for the most part located in Žabljak municipality.

The massif has 48 peaks above 2,000 m (6,562 ft). The highest peaks of Durmitor are:

Durmitor features 18 glacial lakes, scattered over mountain massif and Jezerska Površ plateau. The lakes add significantly to the beauty of the mountain, and have been nicknamed Gorske Oči, or Eyes of the Mountain.

Name Durmitor is probably derived from Balkan Romance-Vlach, and it means "sleeping place" (cognate with English dormitory). There are similarly named mountains such as Visitor (visător, "dreamer") and Cipitor (aţipitor, "sleeper") across former Yugoslavia.

The Durmitor National Park, created in 1952, includes the massif of Durmitor, the canyons of Tara, Sušica and Draga rivers and the higher part of the canyon plateau Komarnica, covering the area of 390 km².