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Koritnik

Koritnik is a wooded, limestone mountain, located in northeastern Albania and southwest Kosovo between the cities of Kukës and Prizren.

Koritnik
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The place

Koritnik is a wooded, limestone mountain, located in northeastern Albania and southwest Kosovo between the cities of Kukës and Prizren. The mountain is entirely surrounded by branches of the White Drin river. The highest point of Koritnik massif, Maja e Pikëllimës reaches an elevation of 2,393 metres (7,851 ft) above the Adriatic. Gryka e Vanavës separates the mountain from Gjallica. The gorge is 3.5 km (2.2 mi) long, 30 m (100 ft) wide, and about 300 m (980 ft) deep.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Koritnik

Airports
Priština Adem Jashari (PRN), 67 km · Skopje (SKP), 88 km · Ohrid St. Paul the Apostle (OHD), 102 km
  • Prishtina → Koritnik
    100 km · quickest by road, 4h 18m · $11–15
  • Ilinden → Koritnik
    182 km · quickest by road, 5h 12m · $19–26
  • Ohrid → Koritnik
    254 km · quickest by road, 8h 22m · $29–40
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Koritnik

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Koritnik. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextGjakova – Take the Bajram Curri bound minivans which pass by Gjakova.

From Wikivoyage: Kukës, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.

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