🇬🇪 Mtirala National Park | Georgia

The name “Mtirala“ (crying) stems from mount Mtirala, whose height reaches 1381 m above sea level and is the wettest area in the country due to frequent high humidity, fog, and permanent rains. Mtirala’s protected area covers 15,698 hectares of Kobuleti, Khelvachauri, and Keda municipalities. The park was established in 2006 on the initiative of the Ministry of Environment Protection and Natural Resources of Georgia and the Agency of Protected Areas, with the support of WWF and the Norwegian government. The territory of Mtirala is constructed by volcanic-sedimentary rocks of the so-called ‘Naghvarevi Pack,’ which are presented by alternating sub-alkali and lime alkali basalts, trachiandesites, andesites, delenites, tuffites, marls, and argillites. The park provides habitats for Colchis, rare and endangered, relict and endemic plants and animal species. Humid Colchis forest spreads from 15-25 m up to 1000-1200 m above sea level. There are registered 284 species of plants, amo