Lazar's Canyon

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Lazar's Canyon
Lazar's Canyon
Location	Serbia
Nearest city	Bor
Coordinates	44°01′05″N 21°55′23″E / 44.018°N 21.923°E / 44.018; 21.923

Lazar's Canyon or Lazar's Gorge (Serbian: Лазарев Кањон / Lazarev Kanjon) is located at about 10 kilometers from Bor. This is the deepest and longest canyon in eastern Serbia. Because of its steep rocky cliffs, the canyon has not yet been fully examined.^[1]

The canyon is famous for its numerous caves and pits. The best known are Lazareva Pećina (also known as Zlotska) and Vernikica and Dubašnička cave (also known as “Zlot caves”). Entire Lazar’s canyon is under state protection, and because of its unique beauty and rich flora and fauna, represents a challenge to all lovers of wilderness and unspoiled nature.

The canyon is quite inaccessible, and passing through it is a real adventure, at times quite challenging and arduous. In many places it is necessary to clamber over the rocks. Lazar’s Canyon, up to 9 km long and between 300 and 500 meters in height, is the longest canyon in eastern Serbia.

It is cut in the limestone massif of the South Kučaj mountain, and through it flows the river of the same name. On all sides there are sheltered rocky reefs: from the south and southeast rises Malinik (1087 m) from the North Strnjak (720 m) and Kornjet (696 m), and from the west Pogar (883 m) and Mikulja (1022 m). The cliffs of the canyon are vertical and straight, and the width at the narrowest part of the canyon is less than seven meters.^[2]