The Putna-Vrancea Natural Park () is a protected area (natural park category V IUCN) situate in Romania, in administrative territory of Vrancea County.protectedplanet.net - Putna-Vrancea Natural Park (location) Retrieved on June 13, 2012.
Location The Natural Park is located in the Vrancea Mountains (Eastern Carpathians), in the hydrographical basin of the Putna River. It is situated in the northwestern part of Vrancea County, on the border with Covasna County, and lies on the administrative territories of the communes Nistorești, Păulești, Soveja, and Tulnici. It is traversed by National Road , which connects Panciu to Lepșa.
Description The Putna-Vrancea Natural Park, with an area of , apmvn.anpm.ro - Agenția pentru Protecția Mediului Vrancea Retrieved on June 13, 2012 was declared a natural protected area by the Government Decision Number 2151 of November 30, 2004 (published in the Romanian Official Paper (Monitorul Oficial) Number 38 of January 12, 2005) and represents a mountainous area (crevasses, mountain peaks, valleys, canyons, waterfalls, forests, pastures), with a large variety of flora and fauna.
The nature park overlaps with the Putna-Vrancea site of community Importance as part of the Natura 2000 Network and includes the following nature reserves: Putna Waterfall, Groapa cu Pini, Mount Goru, Lepșa-Zboina Forest, Strâmtura-Coza, and Tișița Valley.
The park has a natural area framed in the Alpine ecoregion, located in the northwestern central sector of the Vrancea Mountains (a geomorphological subunit of the Curvature Carpathians, part of the Eastern Carpathian mountain range), which shelters, protects, and conserves a diverse range of flora and fauna, expressed both at the species level and at the level of terrestrial ecosystems.
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