Editing Velebit (section)

== The caves ==
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There are hundreds of "holes" on Velebit. It has the largest and deepest [[cave]]s in Croatia. The three-part "Lukina jama" cave is 1392 m deep, making it one of the deepest caves in the world, and the deepest in southeast Europe,<ref name ="Naprijed"/> while the "Slovačka jama" is 1320 m. What makes it unique is that it is completely vertical, steepest in the world. At the bottom of the [[pothole (caving)|pothole]] is a water course or siphon with branches that are still unexplored. A kind of leech was discovered in the pothole, which has been ascertained  to represent a new species, genus and family; it has been named ''[[Erpobdella mestrovi|Erpobdella&nbsp;mestrovi]]''.

'''List of sinkholes on Velebit deeper than 500 m''':

#Lukina Jama, 1392 m, Hajdučki Kukovi – North Velebit
#Slovačka Jama, 1320 m, Rožanski Kukovi – North Velebit
#Velebita, 941 m, Rožanski Kukovi – North Velebit
#Meduza, 679 m, Rožanski Kukovi – North Velebit
#Patkov Gušt, 553 m, Hajdučki Kukovi – North Velebit
#Ledena Jama, 536 m, Lomska Duliba – North Velebit
#Ponor na Bunovcu, 534 m, Bunovac – South Velebit
#Jama Olimp, 531 m, Hajdučki Kukovi – North Velebit
#Lubuška Jama, 521 m, Hajdučki Kukovi – North Velebit

It is also home to ''[[Degenia|Degenia velebitica]]'', an [[endemic (ecology)|endemic]] and protected species of plant in the [[Brassicaceae|mustard family]] discovered in 1907 by the [[Hungary|Hungarian]] [[botanist]] [[Árpád von Degen]].

The imposing nature of the Velebit mountain has made it something of a national symbol in Croatian folklore. There is a patriotic folk song "[[Vila Velebita]]" that personifies a [[Vila (fairy)|fairy]] in Velebit.
[[Image:Rossijeva koliba velebit.jpg|thumb|center|640px|Typical Velebit landscape]]