Svydovets
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[]
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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Coordinates: 48°15′24″N 24°12′13″E / 48.25667°N 24.20361°E
Categories:
- Mountain ranges of Ukraine
- Mountain ranges of the Eastern Carpathians
- Primeval Beech Forests in Europe
- Zakarpattia Oblast geography stubs