Kampinos Forest
| Kampinos Forest Polish: Puszcza Kampinoska | |
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Swamp in Kampinos Forest | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Masovian Voivodeship, Poland |
| Coordinates | 52°19′25″N 20°35′54″E / 52.32361°N 20.59833°E |
| Administration | |
| Events | Palmiry massacre |
Kampinos Forest (Polish: Puszcza Kampinoska) is a large forest complex located in Masovian Voivodeship, west of Warsaw in Poland.
It covers a part of the ancient valley of the Vistula basin, between the Vistula and the Bzura rivers. The forest began to form 14-11,000 years ago, at the very end of the Last Glacial Period.
Once a forest covering 670 km2 of central Poland, it currently covers roughly 240 km2. In its present day form, most of the woodland is no longer old-growth forest but rather the remainders of a once-managed forest which is now left to grow on its own, with little human intervention.