Svydovets

Svydovets Mountains

The Svydovets (Ukrainian Свидівець; Russian Свидовец; Polish Świdowiec; Czech and Slovak Svidovec; German Swydiwez) is a mountain range in western Ukraine, one of the ranges of Eastern Beskids, itself belonging to the Outer Eastern Carpathians.^[1]

Geography[]

Map with the Svydovets range marked in red

Svydovets hosts one of the ten units of the Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathians, recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2007.

The higher peaks include:

• Blysnyzi (Близниці - 1883 meters)
• Tataruka (Татарука - 1774 meters)
• Dohjaska (Догяска - 1764 meters)
• Unharjaska (Унгаряска - 1707 meters)

See also[]

• Divisions of the Carpathians
• Ukrainian Carpathians
• Wooded Carpathians
• Polonynian Beskids
• Polonyna (montane meadow)

References[]

Sources[]

• Földvary, Gábor Z. (1988). Geology of the Carpathian Region. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company. ISBN 9789813103825.
• Tasenkevich, Lydia (2009). "Polonynas: Highlands Pastures in the Ukrainian Carpathians". Grasslands in Europe: Of High Nature Value. Zeist: KNNV Publishing. pp. 203–208. ISBN 9789004278103.

External links[]

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• Carpathian Mountains: Division (map)

Coordinates: 48°15′24″N 24°12′13″E / 48.25667°N 24.20361°E / 48.25667; 24.20361

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