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With an area of 458.7 km (113,300 acres), an average length of 30 km (19 mi) and an average width of 6 km (3.7 mi), Livanjsko Polje is the largest depression of its kind in the world. It is located at an average height of 720 m (2,360 ft) above sea level.
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lies to the southeast corner of the polje. It was dammed in the 1970s for electric power generation. Additional projects are in planning which could seriously compromise the delicate hydrological balance of the
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list on 11 April 2008. The area encompassing 45,868 ha, including seasonally flooded agricultural land and alluvial forest, seasonal marshes and ponds, permanent streams such as
Bistrica, Sturba, Žabljak, karst springs such as Duman, numerous sinkholes, and the largest
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is another lake of note which lies on the northwest part of the field. When the
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1419:Category:Karst fields
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1069:Bjelašnica
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229:Designated
184:30km NW-SE
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641:vegetable
452:Neolithic
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129:Location
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1044:Prenj
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