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The Lake Shkoder basin is a region with rich cultural heritage and history of more than 2000 years. In both countries, there are numerous sites of cultural and historic importance, including archaeological sites, monasteries and other cultural monuments such as rural settlements of ethnographic importance with potential for rural tourism development. Coexistence of groups of different ethnic and religious background for a long period of time has influenced the history, culture and development in the region.In the Montenegrin part of the basin, arable land and pastures equals to the 50 percent of the area of the basin (40 and 10 percent respectively) (Ganoulis and Zinke, 2004).

 
The main human activities in the Albanian part of the basinare agriculture and livestock raising. Fishing is an activity exercised by less than the 10 percent of the families of the coastal zone villages. Currently fishing is not controlled and exact statistics do not exist. Tourism has been developed mainly in the west part of the Lake and in Velipoja beach near the delta of River Buna. Tourist settlements are of small and medium size, but in some specific areas like Velipoja coast tourist settlements are hugely expanding in its northern part and toward Viluni lagoon in the west (Dedej Z. and Beqiraj S. , 2005).

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