Municipality of Čapljina - Općina Čapljina

Municipality Čapljina is situated in the southern-west part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, only about thirty kilometres away of the Adriatic sea. Anyhow, this is extremely tame (gentle) area with pleasant climate, it is the area of sun and greenery through which four rivers flow Neretva, Trebizat, Bregava i Krupa. In nowadays municipality Čapljina covers the area of 274 km2 and the very town lies at about 10 meters of altitude. The whole municipality has about 27 000 of population and the very town has about 7 500 of population.

Its occurence has been implicated by the very frequent territory in the middle of the ancient, extremely significant roads which had been connected seabord along the river Neretva valley towards the Balkans inland and Central Europe territory. In some way, significance of roads and traffic of people and goods have determined the history of these areas.

Čapljina is mentioned as village in 1632. During the Otoman empire municipality was very underdeveloped and depressed by poverty. In the period of Austro-Hungarian occupation in BiH tobacco station, railway station and municipality building have been built in Čapljina.

Čapljina presents a modern, urban town with wide, clean and courtyards, in which all public institutions and buildings are sistematically spaced.

The historic urban site of Počitelj is included (2007) on the Tentative list of UNESCO to be declared a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Municipality of Čapljina: http://www.capljina.ba/

Nature Park Hutovo blato: http://www.hutovo-blato.ba/

Tourist information: http://www.hercegovina.ba/index.php/bs/capljina-bs/item/139-capljina

Description of The historic urban site of Počitelj included on the Tentative list of UNESCO to be declared a UNESCO World Heritage site: http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5092/