Maków Beskids

The Maków Beskids ( pl, Beskid Makowski) is a mountain range in south-central Poland, part of the

Western Beskids The Western Beskids ( cs, Západní Beskydy; sk, Západné Beskydy; pl, Beskidy Zachodnie; german: Westbeskiden) are a set of mountain ranges spanning the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland. Geologically the Western Beskids are part of the Ou ...

within the

Outer Western Carpathians Divisions of the Carpathians are a categorization of the Carpathian mountains system. Below is a detailed overview of the major subdivisions and ranges of the Carpathian Mountains. The Carpathians are a "subsystem" of a bigger Alps-Himalaya Sy ...

. Its highest peak is Mędralowa (1169 meters), within a total area of 900 square kilometers, about 60 km length and width of 15 km. The ranges are forested, with valleys leveled for agriculture and settlements. Among the cities in the Maków Beskids are

Maków Podhalański Maków Podhalański (known as ''Maków'' until 1930) is a town in southern Poland, on the Skawa Skawa (german: Schaue) is a river in southern Poland, a right tributary of the Vistula. It originates in the Western Carpathians (Beskids), is lon ...

, Sucha Beskidzka,

Jordanów Jordanów, is a town in southern Poland, on the Skawa river. As of 2018, the town had a population of 5,360. History Jordanów was founded in 1564 by Spytek Wawrzyniec Jordan on the salt road from Kraków and Wieliczka to Orava and Hungary. In ...

, and

Myślenice Myślenice is a town in southern Poland, situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship (since 1999), previously in Kraków Voivodeship (1975–1998). Population: 20,261 (2007). The town is divided into six districts. One of them, Zarabie, is a popu ...

. It's also called Medium Beskids ( pl, Beskid Średni). {{DEFAULTSORT:Makow Beskids Mountain ranges of Poland Mountain ranges of the Western Carpathians