Location
The area is situated in the top part of Lamana Skala (929 m a.s.l.), the second highest mountain in the Beskid Maly Mountains.

History and land formation
The whole area is overgrown with high forest. There are mostly beech forests, but the top, rocky part of the area is covered by spruce forest. At the top there are rock outcrops (conglomerate and sandstone of Istebna Beds; upper Cretacerous sediments of Silesian series). The outcrops form numerous rock tresholds on the northern and northwestern slopes. A height of these rocky forms varies from several to ten metres.

The site is also famous for the caves, the largest being the Komoniecki's Cave (Jaskinia Komonieckiego) which is a monument of nature and is known as a pearl of Beskid Maly Mountains.

Ecosystem
The greatest part of the sit eis overgrown by forests, maliny fertile beech forest, whcih turn into acidophilous beech forests, and then into forest with domination of spruce.

Habitats listed on Annex I:

• Luzulo-Fagetum beech forests 40%
• Acidophilous Picea forests of the montane to alpine levels (Vaccinio-Piceetea) 40%
• Asperulo-Fagetum beech forests 20%

In the forest bed one May come across numerous protected plant species:  Goat's Beard, Doronicum austriacum, Daphne mezereum, Leucojum vernum.

The fauna of Madohora refuge is typical of montane forets complexes. Here live deer, red deer, wild boars, European lynx, BlaCK Stroks, Fire salamandras and endemic species - Carpathian Newt (Lissotriton Montandowi).

Nature protection
Madohora nature reserve was established in 1960 on the area of 71.81 ha. It is a part of Landscape Park of Beskid Mały (25 770 ha; 1998).