The Levoča Mountains (, , ) is a mountain range in the
Prešov Region
The Prešov Region (, ; ), also Priashiv Region (, ), is one of the eight Slovak administrative regions and consists of 13 districts (okresy) and 666 municipalities, 23 of which have town status. The region was established in 1996 and is the mos ...
of northern
Slovakia
Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, 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 west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's m ...
. Geologically the range stands within the
Podhale-Magura Area
The Podhale-Magura Area (; known in Polish as the Orava-Podhale Depression, ''Obniżenie Orawsko-Podhalańskie'') — is a geomorphologic region of mountain ranges in northern Slovakia and southern Poland, belonging to the Outer Western Carpathi ...
of 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 S ...
.
The highest point is Čierna hora (Black Mountain), at 1,289 m. The peaks in the range stand between 1000 and 1200 m, and the Levoča Mountains lie in the rain shadow of the Tatras, which causes less rainfall.
In 1953, 316 square km of the range was reserved for the
Javorina
Javorina was a military district in the Kežmarok District in northern Slovakia, in the Levoča Hills. Its area is 316.24 km2 and has no permanent population.
History
The military district was created in 1952. It was created from the whole ...
military training area. The base was officially decommissioned on 31 December 2005, and the land returned to private use in January 2011.
One of the adjacent resort towns is
Poprad
Poprad (; ; ) is a city in northern Slovakia at the foot of the High Tatras, High Tatra Mountains, famous for its picturesque historic centre and as a holiday resort. The largest town of the Spiš region and the largest of all towns in the vic ...
.
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Mountain ranges of Slovakia
Mountain ranges of the Western Carpathians