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The reserve is located in the municipalities of Włodawa and Hańsk in the Włodawa poviat in the Lubelskie Voivodeship, on the Łęczyńsko-Włodawska Plain. It is one of several reserves located in the Sobiborski Landscape Park. It covers an area of ​​734.41 ha. It covers three lakes: Spólne, Koseniec and Pereszpa. It was created on the basis of the ordinance of the Minister of Forestry and Wood Industry in 1988, in order to protect the country's most numerous breeding place for the European pond turtle and many rare animal species and endangered from aquatic and peat bog plants. In addition to turtles, there are also beavers with a good food base in numerous swamp birch and alder forests. The sandy areas of the reserve are overgrown with pine forests. Sedge bands dominate the swamps, and yellow waterlilies and northern waterlilies grow in many places.