Škocjan Caves is a cave system located in Slovenia. Škocjan Caves was included on UNESCO’s list of natural and cultural World Heritage Sites in 1986. Škocjan Caves is a significant underground phenomenon on the Karst Plateau and in Slovenia.

Škocjan Caves Regional Park

Nature reserve

Škocjan Caves Regional Park is located in the Škocjan Karst, a vast flat landscape that lies at an elevation between 420 and 450 m in the southeast part of the Karst area.

Cerkev Svetega Kancijana

Church

Photo: Stephen Colebourne, CC BY 2.0.

Cerkev Svetega Kancijana is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Škocjan and Betanja.

Škocjan

Hamlet

Photo: PetarM, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Škocjan is a small settlement in the Municipality of Divača in the Littoral region of Slovenia. Nearby Škocjan Caves is named after the village. The local church is dedicated to Saint Cantianius and belongs to the parish of Rodik.

Betanja

Hamlet

Betanja is a small settlement above Matavun in the Municipality of Divača in the Littoral region of Slovenia.

Naklo

Hamlet

Naklo is a small village in the Municipality of Divača in the Littoral region of Slovenia.

Matavun

Type: Village with 57 residents
Description: human settlement
Categories: human settlement, cultural heritage site in Slovenia, and locality
Location: Divača, Coast and Karst, Slovenia, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude

45.66287° or 45° 39′ 46″ north

Longitude

13.9902° or 13° 59′ 25″ east

Population

Elevation

397 metres (1,302 feet)

Open location code

8FQMMX7R+43

OpenStreetMap ID

node 711524918

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

3343533

Wikidata ID

Q1649066

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Bosnian to Ukrainian—“Matavun” goes by many names.

Bosnian: “Matavun”
Chechen: “Матавун”
Croatian: “Matavun”
Dutch: “Matavun”
French: “Matavun”
Irish: “Matavun”
Italian: “Matavun”
Italian: “Mattauno”
Macedonian: “Матавун”
Polish: “Matavun”
Romanian: “Matavun”
Serbian: “Matavun”
Serbian: “Матавун”
Slovenian: “Matavun pri Divači”
Slovenian: “Matavun”
Tatar: “Матавун”
Ukrainian: “Матавун”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Matavun”. Photo: Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble, CC BY 2.0.