Landscape

Nemunas Loops Regional Park landscape is dominated by unique hydrographical-morphological structure by the valley erosional and hydrological processes, where the difference in altitude reaches up to 50-60 metres, and the distinctiveness of the steep erosional slopes of the Nemunas River slopes was increased still more by the entire chain of defensive mounds. The Park is characterised by various sites and complexes of natural and cultural heritage, and also especially large recreational and educational tourist potential. The Nemunas River makes the following loops especially important for the identity of the landscape: 4 major loops (Punia, Balbieriškis, Prienai, Birštonas), and 2 minor loops (Kernuvės, Kalviai). . 

The diversity of the Nemunas Loops Regional Park is created by the following major landscape types: forested and and cultivated and urbanized meandering terraced valley, forested sandy glacio-fluvial terraces and Holocene dunes, distinctive forested and little cultivated erosional valley slopes, forested and cultivated small erosional valleys and deep erosional valleys, natural and cultivated erosional remnants and ridges, natural and little cultivated small river valleys, forested sandy undulating elevations, forested Holocene dunes, cultivated loamy-clayey undulating morainic elevations and resort town settlements.