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Het Zwin Nature Reserve

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Het Zwin Nature Reserve

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Location: Knokke-Heist, Bruges, West Flanders, Flanders, Belgium

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1. Het Zwin Nature Reserve – Het Zwin Nature Reserve loop from Cadzand-Bad

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2. Het Zwin Nature Reserve – Het Zwin Nature Reserve loop from Retranchement

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3. Het Zwin Nature Reserve – View of Het Zwin loop from Cadzand-Bad

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June 23, 2024

The Zwin is a slufter: a beach plain behind the dunes that is in open connection with the sea. Directly behind the gully mouth lies a sandy beach, further inward lie dunes and salt marshes. Behind the row of dunes lie two small polders, which are managed by the Zeeuwse Landschap: the Kievittepolder and the Oudelandsepolder.

In the Zwinweide, once a side channel of the Zwin, is a very varied area where fresh and salt alternate at a short distance. Thanks to the alternation between wet and dry, salt and fresh, and clay and sand, the entire area has a great variety in vegetation and birds.

Source and all information for your visit to this Zeeland side of the Zwin at hetzeeuwselandschap.nl/natuurgebieden/het-zwin

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June 23, 2024

In the 13th and 14th centuries, this sea arm - ’t Zwyn - was an important waterway to Bruges. This waterway was created after the sea had penetrated the land around the beginning of the Christian era. The cities of Bruges, Damme and Sluis were located on the Zwin and became flourishing trading centres. But the channel became increasingly shallow and eventually unnavigable. That is why the Zwin was later largely poldered. Nature then took over here.

Source: hetzeeuwselandschap.nl/natuurgebieden/het-zwin

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June 23, 2024

The Zwin is a slufter: a beach area behind the dunes that is in open connection with the sea. Directly behind the channel mouth is a sandy beach, further inwards there are dunes and salt marshes. Behind the row of dunes are two small polders, which are managed by the Zeeuwse Landschap: the Kievittepolder and the Oudelandsepolder.

In the Zwinweide, once a side channel of the Zwin, there is a very varied area where fresh and salt alternate at a short distance. Thanks to the alternation between wet and dry, salt and fresh, and clay and sand, the entire area has a great variation in vegetation and birds.

Source and all information for your visit to this Zeeland side of the Zwin at hetzeeuwselanden.nl/natuurgebieden/het-zwin

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Location: Knokke-Heist, Bruges, West Flanders, Flanders, Belgium

Het Zwin Nature Reserve

1. Het Zwin Nature Reserve – Het Zwin Nature Reserve loop from Cadzand-Bad

2. Het Zwin Nature Reserve – Het Zwin Nature Reserve loop from Retranchement

3. Het Zwin Nature Reserve – View of Het Zwin loop from Cadzand-Bad

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