{"id":2687,"date":"2017-07-12T07:10:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T07:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projekti.web-er.si\/tds\/?page_id=2687\/"},"modified":"2018-11-21T12:52:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T12:52:11","slug":"ponikvanski-kras-plateau","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/old.td-sempeter.si\/en\/natural-sights\/ponikvanski-kras-plateau\/","title":{"rendered":"Ponikovski kras Plateau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The regional park Ponikovski kras covers around 40 km<sup>2<\/sup>\u00a0of protected nature. Many\u00a0<strong>karst formations<\/strong>\u00a0are found here, equal to the ones in Slovene Karst, only smaller in scale and size. Sinkholes and\u00a0<strong>karst caves<\/strong>\u00a0are the most common.<\/p>\n<p>Narrow channels with streams Ponikvica, Peklen\u0161\u010dica and Kalski potok divide the plateau. Characteristic of the streams is that they all rise in the northern end of the plateau and run to the south. Since\u00a0<strong>1998<\/strong>, the area has been a\u00a0<strong>protected regional park<\/strong>\u00a0in which many natural monuments, such as the\u00a0Ponikvica Stream and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/old.td-sempeter.si\/en\/narava\/jama-pekel\">Pekel Cave<\/a>, Bezge\u010deva jama Cave and Tajna jama Cave.<\/p>\n<h3>Ponikvica spring<\/h3>\n<p>Under a hill near the Srednja Ponikva village there is the Ponikvica spring that, according to the locals, never dries. It was this spring that the women from the village used to wash their laundry in. The stream runs through the karst region and disappears underground few kilometres later just before the\u00a0<strong>Pekel Cave<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>Sinkholes Loke<\/h3>\n<p>Near the Loke village there are three sinkholes in which the Ponikvica Stream disappears. The first one is the largest and is the only one that is always active. The second one is active only in times of heavy or lasting rainfall. The third, the &#8220;real one&#8221;, is located under a pine tree at the edge of the wood. If days are hot, steam is coming out of it. Farmers used to refrigerate their drinks in this sinkhole.<\/p>\n<h3>Bezge\u010deva jama Cave<\/h3>\n<p>Also known as Kamnita hi\u0161a (the Stone House), this\u00a0<strong>water cave<\/strong>\u00a0is a maze of tunnels in many levels. It has\u00a0<strong>two entrances<\/strong>. In the upper part, the Stone House, bones of a cave bear and remains of an ornamented pottery were found. The total length of tunnels is\u00a0<strong>800 metres<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>Tajna jama Cave<\/h3>\n<p>It is the\u00a0<strong>longest explored water cave<\/strong>\u00a0in Slovenia. It has\u00a0<strong>two entrances<\/strong>\u00a0and is\u00a0<strong>1300 metres<\/strong>\u00a0long. The tunnels are smooth and of the uniform diameter throughout the cave. Some interesting cave formations are found inside the cave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The regional park Ponikovski kras covers around 40 km2\u00a0of protected nature. Many\u00a0karst formations\u00a0are found here, equal to the ones in Slovene Karst, only smaller in scale and size. Sinkholes and\u00a0karst caves\u00a0are the most common. Narrow channels with streams Ponikvica, Peklen\u0161\u010dica and Kalski potok divide the plateau. Characteristic of the streams is that they all rise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2953,"parent":2634,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.td-sempeter.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.td-sempeter.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.td-sempeter.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.td-sempeter.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.td-sempeter.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/old.td-sempeter.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3959,"href":"https:\/\/old.td-sempeter.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2687\/revisions\/3959"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.td-sempeter.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.td-sempeter.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.td-sempeter.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}