The Javořice Highlands ( cs, Javořická vrchovina, german: Jaborschützer Bergeland) is a mountain range in the Czech Republic. The highlands, together with the

Jevišovice Highlands Jevišovice (german: Jaispitz) is a town in Znojmo District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,100 inhabitants. The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone. Geograph ...

threshold, form the Western-Moravian part of

Moldanubian Zone The Moldanubian Zone is in the regional geology of Europe a tectonic zone formed during the Variscan or Hercynian Orogeny (400 to 300 million years ago, during the Devonian and Carboniferous periods). The Moldanubian Zone crops out in the Bohe ...

- east south part of Bohemian Massif.

Geography

The Javořice Highlands rise to the north of the Gmünd, Lower Austria between Slavonice, and the Studená and Mrákotín in the north. The Highlands have an area of and an average height of . The highest peak is '' Javořice'' at ; other peaks are ''Hradisko'' , ''Pivničky'' ''Vysoký kámen'' , ''Bukový vrch'' , ''Starohuťský vrch'' , and ''Čihadlo'' . To the southeast is the Holbruner Wald (Holbrun Forest) in Lower Austria part of Javořice Highlands as well and in the east Jevišovice Highlands. The Javořice Highlands naturally established Bohemian-Moravian border. The mountain range is 76% forested, though mainly by plantations. The forests are in good condition. For the landscape ary typical numerous

bogs A bog or bogland is a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials often mosses, typically sphagnum moss. It is one of the four main Wetland#Types, types of wetlands. Other names for bogs include mire, mosses, quagmire, ...

and ponds. The primary composition of the range is

carboniferous The Carboniferous ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Permian Period, million years ago. The name ''Carbonifero ...

cambrian The Cambrian Period ( ; sometimes symbolized C with bar, Ꞓ) was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon. The Cambrian lasted 53.4 million years from the end of the preceding Ediacaran Period 538.8 million ...

granite and granodiorite. Quartz veins are common.

Soil horizon A soil horizon is a layer parallel to the soil surface whose physical, chemical and biological characteristics differ from the layers above and beneath. Horizons are defined in many cases by obvious physical features, mainly colour and texture. ...

is mainly cambisol. The Thaya (parallel valley), and Jihlava ( source), Nežárka ( source) as well among others, originates here.

Towns

The area is sparsely populated. There are no larger settlements. The most populated towns in the highlands are

Nová Bystřice Nová Bystřice (, german: Neubistritz) is a town in Jindřichův Hradec District in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 3,200 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zo ...

and

Strmilov Strmilov (german: Tremles) is a town in Jindřichův Hradec District in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 1,400 inhabitants. Administrative parts Villages of Česká Olešná, Leština, Malý Jeníkov and Palupín are ...

Gallery

Vysokokamenská vrchovina, z Landštejna 01.jpg, Look from Landštejn castle to Moravia Praha, obelisk na Hradě (5).jpg, 15.5 m high obelisk in Prague Castle originating from Javořice massif PP Míchova skála (1).JPG, The ''Cheesewring'' rock Míchova skála Cizkrajov, od Montserratu 01.jpg, Cizkrajov – Javořice Highlands on horizon

Geography

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