Lechkhumi Range ( ka, ლეჩხუმის ქედი) is a mountain range in Georgia, a southern part of the Caucasus mountains. The Lechkhumi range serves as a

watershed Watershed is a hydrological term, which has been adopted in other fields in a more or less figurative sense. It may refer to: Hydrology * Drainage divide, the line that separates neighbouring drainage basins * Drainage basin, called a "watershe ...

, separating the Tskhenistsqali and Rioni river valleys.Ramin Gobejishvili. Relief of Georgia (in georgian), Publishing house “Universali”. 2011, pp. 85–88 The length of the ridge is 66 km and width is about 25 km. Its maximum height is 3584 metres (the peak of mountain Samertskhle). Lechkhumi Range has a glacial landform, including U-shaped valley and

Cirque A (; from the Latin word ') is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion. Alternative names for this landform are corrie (from Scottish Gaelic , meaning a pot or cauldron) and (; ). A cirque may also be a similarly shaped landform ...

Levan Maruashvili Levan Iosifovich Maruashvili ( ka, ლევან იოსების ძე მარუაშვილი; born 25 October 1912, Novocherkassk, Russian Empire, – 5 December 1992, Tbilisi, Georgia) was a prominent Georgian geographer. Docto ...

. Physical Geography of Georgia (in georgian), Tbilisi, 1964., pp. 156–157 It is mainly composed of lower and middle Jurassic

slate Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. It is the finest grained foliated metamorphic rock. ...

s, sandstones and limestones. Lechkhumi Range encompasses 4 glaciers,

. Geomorphology of Georgia (in russian), “Metsniereba”, Tbilisi. 1971. pp. 197–201 which covered 2 km². It is mostly covered by oak, hornbeam,

beech Beech (''Fagus'') is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe, Asia, and North America. Recent classifications recognize 10 to 13 species in two distinct subgenera, ''Engleriana'' and ''Fagus''. The ''Engle ...

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 ...

and

fir Firs (''Abies'') are a genus of 48–56 species of evergreen coniferous trees in the family (biology), family Pinaceae. They are found on mountains throughout much of North America, North and Central America, Europe, Asia, and North Africa. The ...

. The highest part has alpine and subalpine landscapes.

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Mountain ranges of Georgia (country) Mountain ranges of the Caucasus {{Georgia-geo-stub