National park of Jökulsárgljúfur, Iceland

The National Park of Jökulsárgljúfur was created in 1973. It situated in the western edge of the glacial river Jökulsá á Fjöllum. The National Park extends 30 kilometros to the north of the waterfall Dettifoss to the highway not. 85, that covers 120 square meters kilometers.

Since its birth the river flows through a high remote plateau sprinkled of peaks and with marked flows of lava. In the edge of the high zones, the land is reduced and the river returns more turbulent forming enormous waterfalls in the tube that carries its name. The tube Jökulsárgljúfur is one of the greater and more impressive tubes of the river in Iceland, with 25 km of long, ½ Km of wide and in many places more than 100 meters of depth.



The extensive range of plants that grow in the area offered of rocks and cliffs in the National Park of Jökulsárgljúfur arrives approximately 230 species of registered plants.