Podhale-Magura Area
Mountain range in Eastern Europe
- Podhôľno-magurská oblasť (Slovak)
- Obniżenie Orawsko-Podhalańskie (Polish)
Podhale-Magura Area ranges (marked in red) within the Outer Western Carpathians
The Podhale-Magura Area (Slovak: Podhôľno-magurská oblasť; known in Polish as the Orava-Podhale Depression, Obniżenie Orawsko-Podhalańskie) — is a geomorfologic region of mountain ranges in northern Slovakia and southern Poland, belonging to the Outer Western Carpathians within the Carpathian Mountains system.
Subdivision
The Podhale-Magura Area consists of:
- Skorušina Mountains (SK: Skorušinské vrchy) + Spiš-Gubałówka Piedmont (PL: Pogórze Spisko-Gubałowskie)
- Sub-Tatra Furrow (SK: Podtatranská brázda, PL: Rów Podtatrzański)
- Spiš Magura (SK: Spišská Magura) + Spiš-Gubałówka Piedmont (PL: Pogórze Spisko-Gubałowskie)
- Levoča Mountains (SK: Levočské vrchy), with its highest point, Čierna hora (Black Mountain), 1,289 metres
- Bachureň (SK)
- Spiš-Šariš Intermontane (SK: Spišsko-šarišské medzihorie)
- Šariš Highlands (SK: Šarišská vrchovina)
- Orava Basin (SK: Oravská kotlina) + Orava-Nowy Targ Basin (PL: Kotlina Orawsko-Nowotarska)
The adjacent Pieniny range is sometimes considered part of the Podhale-Magura Area; otherwise considered as part of the Eastern section of the Western Beskids.
External links
Media related to Podhale-Magura Area at Wikimedia Commons
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Divisions, Groups, and Ranges of the Carpathian Mountains
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- Hungarian Carpathians
- Polish Carpathians
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- Serbian Carpathians
- Slovak Carpathians
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