The Wałbrzyskie Mountains or Waldenburg Mountains (; ), sometimes called the Wałbrzyskie Highlands or Waldenburg Highlands, is one of the three mountain ranges that form the western part of the

Central Sudetes The Central Sudetes ( or ''Střední Sudety'', , ) are the central part of the Sudetes mountain range on the border of the Czech Republic and Poland. They stretch from the Nysa Kłodzka River and the Kłodzko Valley in the east to the upper Bó ...

. The other ranges are the

Owl Mountains The Owl Mountains (; ; ; ) are a mountain range of the Central Sudetes, Central Sudetes in southwestern Poland. It includes a protected area called Owl Mountains Landscape Park. Geography The Owl Mountains cover an area of about and stretch ove ...

and the Falcon Mountains.

Geography

The Wałbrzyskie Mountains lie almost entirely within

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. Several southern ridges reach as far as the

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. The range extends to the west and southwest of the

Lower Silesia Lower Silesia ( ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ) is a historical and geographical region mostly located in Poland with small portions in the Czech Republic and Germany. It is the western part of the region of Silesia. Its largest city is Wrocław. The first ...

n town of

Wałbrzych Wałbrzych (; ; or ''Walmbrich''; or ) is a city located in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in southwestern Poland, seat of Wałbrzych County. Wałbrzych lies approximately southwest of the voivodeship capital Wrocław and about from the Czec ...

''(Waldenburg)''. The Owl and Falcon Mountains to the southeast form a continuation of the Wałbrzyskie Highlands. To the west of the highlands in the Western Sudetes are the adjoining ranges of the Bober-Katzbach Mountains and the Landeshut Ridge.

Division of the Wałbrzych Mountains

The Wałbrzych Mountains are divided into three separate parts: * Trójgarb and Krąglak

Massif A massif () is a principal mountain mass, such as a compact portion of a mountain range, containing one or more summits (e.g. France's Massif Central). In mountaineering literature, ''massif'' is frequently used to denote the main mass of an ...

* Chełmiec Massif * Black Mountains

References

External links

Góry Kamienne
Information, description and photographs (Polish)
Góry Wałbrzyskie
Information, description and photographs (Polish) Sudetes Mountain ranges of Poland {{Poland-geo-stub