Parco Regionale Gallipoli Cognato
Piccole Dolomiti Lucane

Gallipoli Cognato Forest is part of the Municipalities of Accettura, Calciano, and Oliveto Lucano, and it covers a surface of 4,159 hectares.
The forest, deriving from the union of two different wood estates - the wood Gallipoli, 1,117 hectares, and the wood Cognato, 3,357 hectares, is characterized by a great altimetric variety: as a matter of fact, it goes from a 200 m of altitude in the territory bordering with the riverbed of the Basento to the 1,319 m of Mt. Impiso.

Dolomiti Lucane rise as "Giants from the sea": they are characterized by high pinnacles which with their silhouette have suggested fantastic names such as the royal eagle, the anvil, the great mother, the little owl.
These mountains date back to 15 million years ago (Middle Miocene), the period in which the sandstones forming the current rocks originated at the bottom of the sea. The highest group is that of the Costa di S. Martino, the so-called "Piccole Dolomiti", since it reproduces the harshness and the features of the famous "Pule Trentine".

It covers a territory of about 800 hectares, going from 750 to 1,158m above sea-level, with exposition mainly towards the North. In the East and in the South-East the wood faces the plain of Metaponto, while in the West it is linked to the eastern ridge of the Apennines of Lucania.