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The Adamello Brenta Nature Park, located in the western part of the Trentino region, is the most extensive protected area in Trentino with 620,51 sq.km. It includes the Adamello and the Brenta Mountain Groups which are separated by Val Rendena and it is also part of the following valleys: Val di Non, Val di Sole, and Val Giudicarie. Within the Park there are 48 lakes and the Adamello glacier which is one of the largest in all of Europe.
The Park's environment is typical of the central southern Alpine arc which has mainly coniferous forests that cover the mountainsides up to an altitude of 1800 m, covering approximately one third of the entire Park. Above this height, the forests give way to mountain meadows and rocky vegetation that reaches a height of 2500 m.
The Park's territory is extremely diversified: fir, beech and larch forests, fields dotted with flowers, meadows, pastures, streams peat bogs, and unscalable rocky cliffs. At an elevated height you can enjoy spectacular, breathtaking, one-of-a-kind landscapes where you can clearly see the geological and geomorphological differences between the two mountain massifs.
It isn't sursprising that there is an extraordinary amount of wildlife on these mountains which is still home to the brown bear: chamois, deer, roe deer, eagles. In addition to rock goat, foxes, badgers, martens, black grouse, wood grouse, Alpine marmots, ptarmigan and many other animals, both small and big.
From the sunny slopes of the southern mountains in the Park to the jagged peaks formed by icy glaciers, visitors can't help but notice the wide variety of plant life in the park: from the endless forests to the small plants that seem to be clinging onto the rocky ridges. The Park has more than 1.500 different species of plantlife.
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