Velika planina is a karst

KARST

Kilometer-square Area Radio Synthesis Telescope is a Chinese telescope project to which FAST is a forerunner. KARST is a set of large spherical reflectors on karst landforms, which are bowlshaped limestone sinkholes named after the Kras region in Slovenia and Northern Italy. It will consist of...

ified mountain plateau in the Kamnik–Savinja Alps to the northeast of Kamnik

Kamnik

Kamnik is the name of a municipality in Slovenia as well as the town that serves as its administrative, cultural, economic, and educational center. The municipality is in north central Slovenia. It encompasses a large part of the Kamnik Alps and the surrounding area...

. It measures 58 square kilometres (22.4 sq mi) and has the average elevation of 1500 metres (4,921.3 ft) above sea level

Sea level

Mean sea level is a measure of the average height of the ocean's surface ; used as a standard in reckoning land elevation...

. Its highest point is Gradišče with 1666 metres (5,465.9 ft). There are numerous herders' dwellings that comprise several settlements: Velika Planina

Velika Planina

Velika Planina is dispersed high-altitude settlement of mostly herders' dwellings on the karstified mountain plateau Velika planina in the Kamnik Alps in Upper Carniola region of Slovenia....

, Mala Planina, Gojška Planina, Tiha Dolina and others.