Yavoriv district (Yavorivskyi) is located in the western part of Lviv region, in the historical and ethnographic territory of Halicia. It borders Poland to the west.
The rivers Vereshchytsia (left tributary of the Dniester) and Shklo (right tributary of the Syan) flow within the district. Here lies the hilly ridge of Roztoche with one of the massifs of Beech virgin forests of the Carpathians, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which is protected by the Roztoche Nature Reserve. The ecological trails of the Yavoriv National Nature Park, the Center for Breeding and Preservation of Descendants of Wild Tarpan Horses, and the Domazhyr Bear Shelter are popular.
There are such historical and cultural monuments as Stradetska Cave, Trinity Church in Ivano-Franokovo, the Church of the Nativ ...