At lower altitudes, the slopes of the mountains and valleys of northern Pindos is spread an extensive network of mountain villages that includes more than a hundred villages and two towns. The six main sections including the settlements of North. Pindos is split into four prefectures: Ioannina prefecture is Zagori, Konitsa and villages as well Metsovo and the surrounding villages in Grevena and Kozani prefectures are the villages of Voios in the prefecture of Grevena Koupatsaraiika villages and finally in the prefecture of Kastoria villages of northeastern slopes of Grammos. An additional section constituting the Vlachochoria Northern Pindos built mostly at high altitudes in all the major mountains of Northern Pindos. Finally Sarakatsans as Pastoralists who is installed with their herds every summer in several of the meadows and subalpine plateaus of Northern Pindos.
The residents of all residential units above the Northern Pindos developed through the centuries their special characteristics based on the traditional way of life and the interaction with their neighbors.
The variety of climatic conditions, the geomorphological terrain and soil composition of the region in combination with the long influence of human activities helped create an extremely rich biodiversity.
The vegetation of the Northern Pindos is rich. At lower altitudes encountered Mediterranean shrubs and trees such as holm oak, the arbutus and holly. Higher up, forests of oaks. More over, beech forests and conifers (pines and firs). Near the peaks, forests with bushes and extensive subalpine meadows.
