The Obcina Mestecăniș Ridge is a range of mountains in

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and ...

. Geologically they belong to the Moldavian-Muntenian Carpathians group of the

Outer Eastern 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 ...

subprovince. Within Romania, however, it is traditional to divide the Eastern Carpathians (''Carpații Orientali'') into three geographical groups (north, center and south) instead. The Romanian categorization includes Mestecăniș Ridge within the northern

Carpathians The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians () are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Urals at and the Scandinavian Mountains at . The range stretches ...

Maramureș or Marmaroshchyna ( ro, Maramureș ; uk, Мармарощина, Marmaroshchyna; hu, Máramaros) is a geographical, historical and cultural region in northern Romania and western Ukraine. It is situated in the northeastern Carpathians, alon ...

and Bukovina (''Grupa Nordică'', ''Munții Carpați ai Maramureșului și Bucovinei''). The Suceava River emerges from these mountains. The highest peak is , at . The mountain range is part of the Ridges of Bukovina (''Obcinele Bucovinei'').

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