Černá hora (i.e. Black Mountain; german: Schwarzenberg) is a mountain in the

Bohemian Forest The Bohemian Forest, known in Czech as Šumava () and in German as Böhmerwald, is a low mountain range in Central Europe. Geographically, the mountains extend from Plzeň Region and South Bohemia in the Czech Republic to Austria and Bavaria in ...

, near the border with

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. Its summit is entirely covered in dense

spruce A spruce is a tree of the genus ''Picea'' (), a genus of about 35 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal (taiga) regions of the Earth. ''Picea'' is the sole genus in the subfami ...

forest. At the foot of the mountain there is the source of the longest Czech river, the

Vltava Vltava ( , ; german: Moldau ) is the longest river in the Czech Republic, running southeast along the Bohemian Forest and then north across Bohemia, through Český Krumlov, České Budějovice and Prague, and finally merging with the Labe at M ...

. The northern and eastern slopes of the mountain lie in the municipal territory of

Kvilda Kvilda (german: Außergefild) is a municipality and village in Prachatice District in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 100 inhabitants. At an altitude of , it is the highest municipality in the Czech Republic. It is a ...

, the western slopes lie in the territory of Modrava.

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Mountains and hills of the Czech Republic Prachatice District Bohemian Forest {{SouthBohemia-geo-stub