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Podyjí  National Park
Podyjí  National Park is one of the four Czech national parks. The park is situated in a hilly area (207-536 m a. s. l.) in southwestern Moravia in the Dyje river valley between the towns of Vranov nad Dyjí  (in the west) and Znojmo (in the east), along the Austrian state border. The area is unique thanks to so-called river phenomenon of the Dyje River flowing in length of more than 30 km in numerous meanders and forming a deeply shaped valley. In the valley, which is deep up to 200 m in some places, slopes of various substrata and orientations occur, supporting a wide scale of habitats.
A typical feature of the Podyjí  National Park is an enormous habitat diversity on a relatively small area (with 63 km² it is the smallest national park in the Czech Republic), ranging from warm and dry habitats such as loess steppic grasslands and thermophilous oak forests to habitats of beech forests which can even host some (sub)mountainous elements.