The Podhale-Magura Area ( sk, Podhôľno-magurská oblasť; known in

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as the Orava-Podhale Depression, ''Obniżenie Orawsko-Podhalańskie'') — is a geomorfologic region of mountain ranges in northern

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and southern

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, belonging to 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 ...

within the Carpathian Mountains system.

Subdivision

The Podhale-Magura Area consists of: * Skorušina Mountains (SK: ''Skorušinské vrchy'') + Spiš-Gubałówka Piedmont (PL: ''Pogórze Spisko-Gubałowskie'') * Sub-Tatra Furrow (SK: ''Podtatranská brázda'', PL: ''Rów Podtatrzański'') * Spiš Magura (SK: ''Spišská Magura'') + Spiš-Gubałówka Piedmont (PL: ''Pogórze Spisko-Gubałowskie'') *

Levoča Mountains Levočské vrchy (Slovakia)

The Levoča Mounta ...

(SK: ''Levočské vrchy''), with its highest point, ''Čierna hora'' (Black Mountain), 1,289 metres * Bachureň (SK) * Spiš-Šariš Intermontane (SK: ''Spišsko-šarišské medzihorie'') * Šariš Highlands (SK: ''Šarišská vrchovina'') * Orava Basin (SK: ''Oravská kotlina'') + Orava-Nowy Targ Basin (PL: ''Kotlina Orawsko-Nowotarska'') The adjacent

Pieniny The Pieniny (sometimes also the PieninsSzafer, Władysław. 2013. ''The Vegetation of Poland: International Series of Monographs in Pure and Applied Biology''. Warsaw: Pergamon Press, pp. 156, 388. or the Pienin Mountains,Griffiths, Graham C. D. ...

range is sometimes considered part of the Podhale-Magura Area; otherwise considered as part of the

Eastern section of the Western Beskids Eastern section of the Western Beskids ( cs, Východní část Západních Beskyd) are a set of mountain ranges spanning the southern Polish and northern Slovak border. They constitute an eastern section of the Western Beskids, within the Out ...

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