Cucurbăta Mare (), also known as Bihor Peak, is a mountain in the
Bihor Mountains. It is located in the southeastern part of
Bihor County
Bihor County (, ) is a county (județ) in western Romania. With a total area of , Bihor is Romania's 6th largest county geographically and the main county in the historical region of Crișana. Its capital city is Oradea (Nagyvárad).
Toponymy
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, near the border with
Alba County
Alba County () is a county (județ) of Romania located in the historic region of Transylvania. Its capital is Alba Iulia, a city with a population of 63,536.
Name
"Alba", meaning "white" in Latin and Romanian, is derived from the name of the ...
, in
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...
. It is high and the tallest mountain in the
Western Romanian Carpathians.
[2017 Romanian Statistical Yearbook]
p. 12
References
External links
Video of mountain biker ascent
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Mountains of Romania