Plane Tree in the Vouraikos Gorge

The Chelmos-Vouraikos National Park covers a large land area that includes the Vouraikos Gorge and a substantial part of the Chelmos mountain range and slopes of Chelmos, up to the source of the Aroanios at Planitero. The national park was founded in 2009 by ministerial decree with the aim to protect, conserve and manage nature and the landscape as a natural heritage and a precious national resource. Here, in the Vouraikos Gorge, is one of the many species of flora in the park, the oriental plane tree (Platanus orientalis).