Sumava National Park invites you to get acquainted with its nature and the history of the region. Try the following quiz to find out how much information on it you have already learned beforehand. 1 Sumava NP was proclaimed in the year 1991 in 1970, the same as the neighbouring NP of the Bavarian Forest in 1963 together with CHKO Sumava in 1990 as a part of a biospheric reserve of the same name 2 Its territory consists for the most part of: wetlands and deforested landscape forests cultivated landscape highland meadows 3 Most of the present deforested areas originated: as agricultural land first due to forests being lumbered round the glassworks of that time as natural forestless areas due to forests being lumbered in connection with timber floating 4 Washing gold grains out of sand and grit sediments of the rivers and brooks was called: panning for gold extracting gold floating gold washing out gold 5 The Czech national river rising in the Sumava region is called: Otava Vltava Volynka Blanice 6 The name of a great writer of the Sumava region was: Karel Capek Karel Klostermann Bedrich Smetana Julius Zeyer 7 The flower characterizing the Sumava region is: Round-leaved sundew Mountain bindweed Hungarian gentian Bohemian gentian 8 The peat bogs of the Sumava region: they are wild swamps where neither any plants nor any animals can take root or live they are islets of mountain taiga and forest tundra with specific communities of fauna and flora surviving from the time where the Quaternary glaciation of the Sumava region had been in recess they are classified as raised bogs due to the fact that they are to be found at high altitudes of the Šumava region parts of plants and animals being accumulated in the peat layer decompose quickly, and later on it is impossible to identify their origin any more 9 Floating channels in the Sumava region? they were built 200 years ago for transporting timber from the virgin forests of the Sumava region of that time as far as the interior of the country still before they were used as man-made feeder channels for driving smithies and saw mills timber floating down the Schwarzenberg floating channel as far as Vienna lasted since 1791 for the following 57 years until the revolutionary year of 1848 both of the floating channels have gone into a decline and they are hardly noticeable in the landscape 10 There are 5 lakes to be found on the Czech side of the Sumava Mountains they are man-made water reserviors built 200 years ago as part of the channel system for drifting timber it is natural phenomenon - a relic of the Quaternary glaciation of the ragion there is fish living there, the same as in the rivers the largest of them is Plesne Lake in the south of the territory