Vihorlat Mountains ( sk, Vihorlatské vrchy; ua, Вигорлат, ''Vyhorliat'') or colloquially Vihorlat is a volcanic mountain range in eastern

Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the ...

and western

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inva ...

. A part of the range is listed as a

World Heritage Site A World Heritage Site is a landmark or area with legal protection by an international convention administered by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). World Heritage Sites are designated by UNESCO for ...

Etymology

The name is of Slavic origin. Jozef Martinka suggested the origin in Ruthenian ''vyharj / vyhar'' ( Slovak: ''výhor'') - a burned forest with a groupping suffix ''-ať''. ''Vygarljať'', ''Vyhorljať'' - a mountain with many burned places. The Hungarian name ''Vihorlát'' derives from Slovak as an intermediate language.

Vihorlat Mountains in Slovakia

The Slovak part is 55 km long, up to 11 km broad and from 400 to 1,076 m high. It belongs to the Vihorlat-Gutin Area group of the Inner Eastern Carpathian Mountains. The middle part of the mountains is protected by the Vihorlat Protected Landscape Area. Vihorlat is bordered by the

Eastern Slovak Lowland The East(ern) Slovak Lowland ( Slovak: ''Východoslovenská nížina'') is the name of a part of the Great Hungarian Plain (Slovak: ''Veľká dunajská kotlina'') situated in Slovakia. In terms of geomorphology, it forms one unit together wit ...

(''Východoslovenská nížina'') in the south and the west. The Beskidian Southern Piedmont (''Beskydské predhorie'') separates Vihorlat from the Bukovské vrchy mountains and Laborecká vrchovina highlands in the north. The highest peak is Vihorlat at 1,076 m

AMSL Height above mean sea level is a measure of the vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) of a location in reference to a historic mean sea level taken as a vertical datum. In geodesy, it is formalized as '' orthometric heights''. The ...

. The largest lake in the mountain range is Morské oko, which is situated at 618 m AMSL.

World Heritage Site

Kyjovský prales, a primeval

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 ''Engl ...

forest in Vihorlat Mountains, was proclaimed by

UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a List of specialized agencies of the United Nations, specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international coope ...

to be a

on June 28, 2007, because of its comprehensive and undisturbed ecological patterns and processes.unesco.org
/ref>

Gallery

Vihorlat (v zime) 002.jpg, Vihorlat (1,076 m), the highest mountain of Vihorlat Mountains Vihorlat (v zime) 007.jpg, Pylon on top of Vihorlat with rime Vihorlat (v zime) 034.jpg, Vihorlat in winter, in the background

High Tatras The High Tatras or High Tatra Mountains ( Slovak: Vysoké Tatry; pl, Tatry Wysokie; rue, Высокі Татри,'' Vysoki Tatry''; hu, Magas-Tátra; german: Hohe Tatra; french: Hautes Tatras), are a mountain range along the border of norther ...

Vihorlat (v zime) 046.jpg, Winter in Vihorlat (left peak Kyjov) Sninský kameň (v máji) 015.jpg, Sninský kameň (1,006 m) Sninský kameň (v máji) 026.jpg, View of Morské oko from Sninský kameň Sninský kameň (v zime) 046.jpg, Sninský kameň in winter at sunset Sninský kameň v jeseni 001.jpg, Sninský kameň in autumn Morské oko 022.jpg, Morské oko and peak Sninský kameň Morské oko (v máji) 008.jpg, Morské oko in May Jasenovský hrad 006.JPG, Jasenov Castle Pohľad na Brekovský hrad.jpg,

Brekov Castle Brekov Castle ( Slovak ''Brekovský hrad'', Hungarian ''Barkó vára'') is a ruined Gothic and Renaissance era stone castle above the village of Brekov in Humenné District, Prešov Region, in east Slovakia. It is a hilltop castle located on a ...

Panorama

References

External links

Chránená krajinná oblasť Vihorlat
(in Slovak)
Protected Landscape Area Vihorlat
a
Slovakia.travel

Photo gallery VihorlatPhoto gallery Sninský kameňPhoto gallery Inversion – Vihorlat, Sninský kameň
(photos of Vihorlat and Sninský kameň)
Distant sights from Vihorlat Mountains
on the portal Na obzore (in Slovak) * Mountain ranges of Slovakia World Heritage Sites in Slovakia Mountain ranges of the Eastern Carpathians Mountain ranges of Ukraine {{Slovakia-geo-stub