Vihorlat Mountains
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Slovakia
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and western Ukraine
Ukraine
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. A part of the range is listed as a World Heritage Site
World Heritage Site
A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a place that is listed by the UNESCO as of special cultural or physical significance...
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Vihorlat Mountains in Slovakia
The Slovak part is 55 km long, up to 11 km broad and from 400 to 1,076 mM
M is the thirteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.-History:The letter M is derived from the Phoenician Mem, via the Greek Mu . Semitic Mem probably originally pictured water...
high. It belongs to the Vihorlat-Gutin Area
Vihorlat-Gutin Area
The Vihorlat-Gutin Area is a region of mountain ranges spanning eastern Slovakia, northern Romania, and western Ukraine....
group of the Inner Eastern Carpathian Mountains. The middle part of the mountains is protected by the Vihorlat Protected Landscape Area
Vihorlat Protected Landscape Area
Vihorlat Protected Landscape Area is one of the 14 protected landscape areas in Slovakia. The Landscape Area is situated in the middle part of the Vihorlatské vrchy mountains, in eastern Slovakia...
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Vihorlat is bordered by the Eastern Slovak Lowland
Eastern Slovak Lowland
The East Slovak Lowland is the name of the part of Great Hungarian Plain situated in Slovakia....
(Východoslovenská nížina) in the south and the west. The Beskidian Piedmont (Beskydské predhorie) separates Vihorlat from the Bukovské vrchy
Bukovské vrchy
Bukovské vrchy is a flysch mountain range in north-eastern Slovakia, part of the Eastern Beskids and the Ukrainian Carpathians ranges belonging to the Eastern Carpathians....
mountains and Laborecká vrchovina highlands in the north. The highest peak is Vihorlat at 1,076 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 beechBeech
Beech is a genus of ten species of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe, Asia and North America.-Habit:...
forest in Vihorlat Mountains, was proclaimed by UNESCO
UNESCO
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to be a World Heritage Site
World Heritage Site
A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a place that is listed by the UNESCO as of special cultural or physical significance...
on June 28, 2007 because of its comprehensive and undisturbed ecological patterns and processes.