Croatia is blessed with beautiful, diverse and preserved rivers. Waterfalls are present on many of them, especially in the karst region. The tufa (travertine) is the main creator of the waterfalls in many rivers. Even though there is not much gradient in the altitude, the rivers are dammed by tufa barriers and beautiful waterfalls are| World Rivers - Rivers are lifelines of our planet!
The Plitvice Lakes, a land of falling lakes with hundreds of waterfalls, are built by a „magical“ substance called tufa (could be called travertine, sedra in Croatian). OK, it is not magical, but the results are definitely like they came from a fairy tale. If it wasn't for tufa, the Plitvice Lakes would've been a| World Rivers - Rivers are lifelines of our planet!