| Official Name: | Otlica |
| Pushpin Map: | Slovenia |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Slovenia |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Slovenia |
| Subdivision Type1: | Traditional region |
| Subdivision Name1: | Littoral |
| Subdivision Type2: | Statistical region |
| Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name3: | Ajdovščina |
| Area Total Km2: | 12.17 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 282 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Religions |
| Coordinates: | 45.9276°N 13.9102°W |
| Elevation M: | 817.8 |
| Footnotes: | [1] |
Otlica (pronounced as /sl/) is a dispersed settlement in the hills north of Ajdovščina in the Littoral region of Slovenia. It is made up of smaller clusters of the hamlets of Sibirija, Kitajska, Kurja Vas (sl|Kurja vas), and Cerkovna, as well as a number of outlying isolated farms.[2]
Otlica is located on the high Trnovo Forest Plateau (sl|Trnovski gozd), overlooking the Vipava Valley. The part of the larger plateau known as the Otlica Plateau (sl|Otliška planota) is named after Otlica.[3] Together with the ridge-top villages of Predmeja, Kovk, and Gozd, it is part of an area locally known as Gora (literally, 'the mountain').[4]
The name Otlica is derived from the Slovene adjective otel 'hollow'. It refers to a karst sinkhole about 500m (1,600feet) west of Navrše Hill (elevation 500sp=usNaNsp=us); the bottom of the sinkhole leads to the opposite side of the Gora Ridge through a passage 20m (70feet) high and 15m (49feet) wide that opens above a footpath to Ajdovščina. In folk tradition the mountain was therefore referred to as being hollow.[5] [6] The hamlet of Siberija (literally, 'Siberia') is so named because of its exposure to the frost and the bora wind, and the hamlet of Kitajska (literally, 'China') is a reference to the large number of children that people living there had.[7]
The parish church in the settlement is dedicated to the Guardian Angels and belongs to the Koper Diocese.[8]