ИСТИНА

The new territory of the first Aspiring UNESCO Geopark in Bulgaria, Belogradchik rocks, comprises three municipalities in Northwest Bulgaria in Vidin region between Bulgarian-Serbian border and the Danube. The new concept of geopark emphasizes the importance of geotourism and other alternative forms of sustainable tourism. Tourism activities can actively promote to get acquainted with geologic and landscape features of the region. In relation to the main objectives of the proposed geopark we have elaborated a new informational support based on geospatial data and thematic maps. These data can be organized in three blocks: base geospatial data, thematic data and tourism data. Base data include digital elevation model, hydrography, populated places, road network and so on. Thematic maps relate to geologic and landscape diversity and reflect geologic structure, locations of geosites, landscape types, land cover classes according to CORINE landcover 2012 and areas of high nature value. Tourism data comprise georeferenced bicycle routes, pedestrian tracks and ecological tracks. All these geospatial data have been compiled in the single geodatabase and visualized at a scale 1:300 000.