Tara River Canyon

The most attractive part of the canyon are the high rocks of the mountain range of Ljubišnja, which are located in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Durmitor National Park.

The park's right and left sides from the point of Crna Poda near the town of Mojkovac belong to the Municipality of Pljevlja.

Within Montenegro the canyon is protected as a part of Durmitor National Park and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The canyon features rocky and pebbly terraces, sandy beaches, high cliffs, and more than 80 large caves.

The water pouring from the Bučevica Cave falls into the Tara more than thirty metres high, and more than a hundred and fifty meters wide.

The governments of Montenegro and the Republika Srpska entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina had plans to flood a considerable part of the gorge, to construct one or more hydroelectric dams on the Drina and possibly the Tara.

[1][2][3] One proposed dam at Buk Bijela village, some 15 kilometers downstream of border with Montenegro and the confluence of the Tara with the Piva river, the Buk Bijela Hydro Power Plant, although apparently abandoned in April 2005 after successful protests, was reconsidered as recently as 2018.