Vihorlat Mountains

Vihorlat Mountains

Vihorlat Mountains ( _sk. Vihorlatské vrchy; _ua. "Vyhorliat") or colloquially Vihorlat is a volcanic mountain range in eastern Slovakia and western Ukraine. A part of the range is listed as a World Heritage Site.

Vihorlat Mountains in Slovakia

The Slovak part is 55 km long, up to 11 km broad and from 400 to 1076 m high. It is the only mountain range in Slovakia that belongs to the Inner Eastern Carpathians. The middle part of the mountains is protected by the Vihorlat Protected Landscape Area.

Vihorlat is bordered by the Eastern Slovak Lowland ("Východoslovenská nížina") in the south and the west. The Beskidian Piedmont ("Beskydské predhorie") separates Vihorlat from the Bukovské vrchy mountains and Laborecká vrchovina highlands in the north. The highest peak is Vihorlat at 1076 m AMSL. The largest lake in the mountain range is Morské oko, which is situated at 618 m AMSL.

World Heritage Site

Kyjovský prales, a primeval beech forest in Vihorlat Mountains, was proclaimed by UNESCO to be a World Heritage Site on June 28, 2007 because of its comprehensive and undisturbed ecological patterns and processes. [ [http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=38706&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html unesco.org] ]

References

External links

* [http://www.slovakia.travel/entitaview.aspx?l=2&p=99&cat=0505&llt=6&idp=2329 Protected Landscape Area Vihorlat] at [http://www.slovakia.travel/intropage.aspx?l=2 Slovakia.travel]


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