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Cavtat - Location and climate

Dalmatia - Dubrovnik

The town of Cavtat, situated south of Dubrovnik, now a tourist and cultural center of Konavle southernmost Croatian regions.

Konavle, the southernmost region of Croatia, occupying an area of ​​209 km2 in which the 33 smaller towns and 9500 inhabitants live. Although a relatively small area, in Konavlima distinguish clearly three completely different parts: the rocky coast, the central part of the field, and the mountain region. Northern mountainous part, which borders with Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro dominated Snježnica ranges (1,234 m) and Bjelotine. The central part of the fertile Konavala Konavosko field, which stretches 35 and a width of 12 km in its central part to pour streams of rivers angered, Konavočica and tiller. Coastal belt in the central part of Konavle dominates vertical bluff Konavle rocks, on the South Peninsula Molunat continues with its bays and peninsula coating at the entrance to Boka Bay and the west Zupa Bay of Cavtat with beautiful bays, peninsulas and islands.

Nearly a third of the surface is covered with forests Konavala: in the rocky coastal area dominated by low forest underbrush, pine and cypress trees, while in the northern mountain area near the cypress and maquis find oak and hornbeam forests.

General guidelines Konavlima climate is Mediterranean: mild winters, warm autumn and kišnije of spring, summer, dry and hot, and the main south winds, wind and breeze.

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