The peak called Dinara is the highest peak of Croatia, is shaped like a
human head made of stone, and also has a prominence of 728 m.Its Latin
name is Adrian oros while the current name is suspected to be derived
from the name of an ancient Illyrian tribe that lived on the eastern
slopes of the mountain.
It is best known for the fact that its name
is the base for the name of a large mountain chain called the Dinaric
Alps or Dinarides. The Dinarides are known for being composed of karst —
limestone rocks — as is the mountain that named them.
Dinara is host
to an endemic species of rodent, the Balkan snow vole (Dolomys
bogdanovi longipedis), known in Croatian as the Dinarski miš ("Dinara
mouse"). It is an endangered species.
Dinara itself spans from the
Derala mountain pass (965 m) in the northwest to the Privija pass (1230
m) which is 20 km to the southeast, where the Kamesnica Mountain begins.
The Dinara Mountain is up to 10 km wide
