Vihorlat Mountains (; , ''Vyhorliat,'' Hungarian: Vihorlát) or colloquially Vihorlat is a volcanic mountain range in eastern

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 ...

and western

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. A part of the range is listed as a

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Etymology

The name is of

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origin. Jozef Martinka suggested the origin in Ruthenian ''vyharj / vyhar'' ( Slovak: ''výhor'') - a burned forest with a grouping 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 The Vihorlat-Gutin Area (; ; ) is a region of mountain ranges ranging from eastern Slovakia, through western Ukraine, into northern Romania. Geologically these ranges are considered part of the Inner Eastern Carpathians. Within Romania, howeve ...

group of the Inner Eastern Carpathian Mountains. The middle part of the mountains is protected by the

Vihorlat Protected Landscape Area Vihorlat Protected Landscape Area () is one of 14 protected landscape areas in Slovakia. The Landscape Area is in the middle part of the Vihorlatské vrchy mountains, in eastern Slovakia. It is in the Humenné, Sobrance and Snina districts. ...

. 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 with t ...

(''Východoslovenská nížina'') in the south and the west. The Beskidian Southern Piedmont (''Beskydské predhorie'') separates Vihorlat from the

Bukovské vrchy The Bukovec Mountains (; ) is a flysch mountain range in north-eastern Slovakia, part of the Eastern Beskids of the Outer Eastern Carpathians. It is located in the Prešov Region near the borders with Poland (Bieszczady Mountains) and Ukraine, ...

mountains and

Laborecká vrchovina The Laborec Highlands (in Slovak, ''Laborecká vrchovina'') is a mountain range in northeastern Slovakia, part of the Lower Beskids of the Outer Eastern Carpathians. The range is composed of Carpathian flysch. Bordered in the north by the Pol ...

highlands in the north. The highest peak is Vihorlat at 1,076 m

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. 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 (genus ''Fagus'') is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to subtropical (accessory forest element) and temperate (as dominant element of Mesophyte, mesophytic forests) Eurasia and North America. There are 14 accepted ...

forest in Vihorlat Mountains, was proclaimed by

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to be a

on June 28, 2007, because of its comprehensive and undisturbed ecological patterns and processes.unesco.org
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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 (; ; ,'' Vysoki Tatry''; ; ), are a mountain range along the border of northern Slovakia in the Prešov Region, and southern Poland in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. They are a range of the Tatra Mountains ...

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 ''Hrad Brekov'' or ''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 c ...

Panorama

References

External links

Chránená krajinná oblasť Vihorlat
(in Slovak)
Protected Landscape Area Vihorlat
a
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Photo gallery VihorlatPhoto gallery Sninský kameňPhoto gallery Inversion – Vihorlat, Sninský kameň
(photos of Vihorlat and Sninský kameň)
Distant sights from Vihorlat Mountains
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