Orava-Nowy Targ Basin

The Orava-Nowy Targ Basin (Polish: Kotlina Orawsko-Nowotarska) is the northern, lowest part of the Podhale-Magura Area, between the Western Beskids in the north and the Spisko-Gubałowski Highlands in the south.

These bogs, completely dependent on rainwater, began to form around 10,000 years ago, when the climate warmed after the glacial period.

In addition to sphagnum mosses, there are plants adapted to the deficiency of nutrients - insectivorous sundews and common butterwort.

[3] In one of the peat bogs, called Puścizna Wielka, the site of cloudberry, a rare plant considered a glacial relict, was discovered in 2002.

[2] The Orawa-Nowy Targ Basin covers three historical and ethnographic lands: Orava in the western part (e.g. Jabłonka, Chyżne, and the entire area of the valley in Slovakia), Podhale in the eastern part (e.g. Czarny Dunajec, Nowy Targ) and a small fragment of Spiš at the eastern end (including Nowa Biała, Frydman).