page_title: Carpathian Mountains
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Carpathian Mountains / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Corocznie w Koniakowie z początkiem maja odbywa się wiosenny redyk tzw. miyszanie owiec, podczas którego kilka mniejszych stad łączy się w jedno wielkie. Gazdowie oddają pod opiekę swoje stada bacy, który wraz z juhasami wyrusza na redyk na Ochodzitą. W tym dniu można zobaczyć odświętne regionalne stroje, usłyszeć głos trombity oraz zobaczyć pastereskie zwyczaje np. poświęcenie stada, okadzanie koszora i miyszani owiec wokół moja ustawionego na szczycie Ochodzitej.
context_page_description: The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians are a range of mountains forming an arc throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Roughly 1,500 km long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Urals at 2,500 km and the Scandinavian Mountains at 1,700 km. The range stretches from the far eastern Czech Republic in the northwest through Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Ukraine Serbia and Romania in the southeast. The highest range within the Carpathians is known as the Tatra mountains in Slovakia and Poland, where the highest peaks exceed 2,600 m. The second-highest range is the Southern Carpathians in Romania, where the highest peaks range between 2,500 m and 2,550 m.
  The divisions of the Carpathians are usually in three major sections:
  Western Carpathians — Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary
  Eastern Carpathians — southeastern Poland, eastern Slovakia, Ukraine, and Romania
  Southern Carpathians — Romania and eastern Serbia
  The term Outer Carpathians is frequently used to describe the northern rim of the Western and Eastern Carpathians.
context_section_description: The northwestern Carpathians begin in Slovakia and southern Poland. They surround Transcarpathia and Transylvania in a large semicircle, sweeping towards the southeast, and end on the Danube near Orşova in Romania. The total length of the Carpathians is over 1,500 km (932 mi) and the mountain chain's width varies between 12 and 500 km (7 and 311 mi). The highest altitudes of the Carpathians occur where they are widest. The system attains its greatest breadth in the Transylvanian plateau and in the southern Tatra Mountains group – the highest range, in which Gerlachovský štít in Slovakia is the highest peak at 2,655 m (8,711 ft) above sea level. The Carpathians cover an area of 190,000 km² (73,359 sq mi), and after the Alps, form the next-most extensive mountain system in Europe.
  Although commonly referred to as a mountain chain, the Carpathians do not actually form an uninterrupted chain of mountains. Rather, they consist of several orographically and geologically distinctive groups, presenting as great a structural variety as the Alps. The Carpathians, which attain an altitude over 2,500 m (8,202 ft) in only a few places, lack the bold peaks, extensive snowfields, large glaciers, high waterfalls, and numerous large lakes that are common in the Alps. It was believed that no area of the Carpathian range was covered in snow all year round and there were no glaciers, but recent research by Polish scientists discovered one permafrost and glacial area in the Tatra Mountains. The Carpathians at their highest altitude are only as high as the middle region of the Alps, with which they share a common appearance, climate, and flora.
  The Carpathians are separated from the Alps by the Danube. The two ranges meet at only one point: the Leitha Mountains at Bratislava. The river also separates them from the Balkan Mountains at Orşova in Romania. The valley of the March and Oder separates the Carpathians from the Silesian and Moravian chains, which belong to the middle wing of the great Central Mountain System of Europe. Unlike the other wings of the system, the Carpathians, which form the watershed between the northern seas and the Black Sea, are surrounded on all sides by plains, namely the Pannonian plain to the southwest, the Lower Danubian Plain to the south, with the southern part being in Bulgaria, and the northern - in (Romania), and the Galician plain to the northeast.
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