Kampinos Forest

Kampinos Forest
Polish: Puszcza Kampinoska
Swamp in Kampinos Forest
Map
Map showing the location of Kampinos Forest
Map showing the location of Kampinos Forest
Geography
LocationMasovian Voivodeship, Poland
Coordinates52°19′25″N 20°35′54″E / 52.32361°N 20.59833°E / 52.32361; 20.59833
Administration
EventsPalmiry massacre

Kampinos Forest (Polish: Puszcza Kampinoska) is a large forest complex located in Masovian Voivodeship, west of Warsaw in Poland.

It covers a part of the ancient valley of the Vistula basin, between the Vistula and the Bzura rivers. The forest began to form 14-11,000 years ago, at the very end of the Last Glacial Period.[1]

Once a forest covering 670 km2 of central Poland, it currently covers roughly 240 km2. In its present day form, most of the woodland is no longer old-growth forest but rather the remainders of a once-managed forest which is now left to grow on its own, with little human intervention.[2]

  1. ^ Jastrzębowski, Szymon; Związek, Tomasz; Marek, Jacek, eds. (2023). Puszcza Kampinoska: opowieści o wydmach, mokradłach i sosnach: przewodnik po krajobrazach przyrodniczo-kulturowych (Wydanie I ed.). Kielce: Paśny Buriat. pp. 36–42. ISBN 978-83-968741-3-9.
  2. ^ Jastrzębowski, Szymon; Związek, Tomasz; Marek, Jacek, eds. (2023). Puszcza Kampinoska: opowieści o wydmach, mokradłach i sosnach: przewodnik po krajobrazach przyrodniczo-kulturowych (Wydanie I ed.). Kielce: Paśny Buriat. p. 47. ISBN 978-83-968741-3-9.