Babia Góra National Park is one of the 23 national parks in Poland, located in the southern part of the country, in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, on the border with Slovakia. Its headquarters are located in Zawoja. A Nature Reserve which roughly covered the area of the modern-day national park was created in 1933, with the actual park established on October 30, 1954. Since 1976, it has been designated by UNESCO as a biosphere reserve. The park covers an area of 33.92 km2, around 85% of it covered by forests. The park includes the northern and part of the southern side of the Babia Góra massif. The main peak of the massif (known as Diablak) is also the highest point of the Orava Beskids mountain range at 1725 m. The Slovak side of the massive mostly consists of the Horná Orava Protected Landscape Area.

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