Official Name: | Bobovek |
Pushpin Map: | Slovenia |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Slovenia |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Slovenia |
Subdivision Type1: | Traditional region |
Subdivision Name1: | Upper Carniola |
Subdivision Type2: | Statistical region |
Subdivision Name2: | Upper Carniola |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | Kranj |
Area Total Km2: | 0.45 |
Population As Of: | 2002 |
Population Total: | 138 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
Coordinates: | 46.2746°N 14.3645°W |
Elevation M: | 410.7 |
Footnotes: | [1] |
Bobovek (pronounced as /sl/ or pronounced as /sl/) is a small settlement in the Municipality of Kranj in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.[2]
West of the settlement, two former clay pits have formed small lakes with a unique biotope, which is now a protected nature reserve. Mammoth remains, as well as fossilized remains of shoals of common dace, have been discovered in the clay layers.[3]
Bobovek was attested in written sources as Wobovik in 1399 and Bobwnig in 1417, among other spellings.[4]