Plitvice Lakes is Croatia's well known national park, inscribed in the UNESCO World heritage list, it is a group 16 small lakes connected with numerous large and smaller waterfalls, this territory is surrounded by dense forests of beech (is home to bears, wolves and many rare bird species ), decorated with several caves and flower meadows.
In the Plitvice Lakes National Park, barriers between the lakes over which are falling magnificent waterfalls and the small falls, have been created in a special, natural way.
Nowadays, while walking at the Plitvice Lakes, finding there owerflooded paths along the lakes, we can be positive that the travertine barrier grows up at the downstream section, and that the a forementioned path is going to be soon under the water but at the same time this is a sign that the fundamental phenomenon of the Plitvice Lakes is continuously going on.
The Plitvica stream, 4 km long, is a part of Plitvice system, because its waters are creating the biggest Plitvice waterfall, 76 meters high , which falls down, above Sastavci at the end of Novakovica brod, into the rocky scar creating the beginning of the river Korana flow. The Plitvica stream springs as a strong karst spring under the sheer slopes, at 606 metres of altitude, close to a small village of Rodic Poljana at the foot of a big building called "Vila izvor". The Sartuk stream flows into the Plitvica stream under Rodic Poljana village.