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 Carpathians within the Carpathian Mountains system.

Subdivision

The Podhale-Magura Area consists of:

• SkoruÅ¡ina Mountains (SK: SkoruÅ¡inské vrchy) + SpiÅ¡-Gubałówka Highlands (PL: Pogórze Spisko-Gubałowskie)
• Sub-Tatra Trench (SK: Podtatranská brázda, PL: Rów Podtatrzański)
• SpiÅ¡ Magura (SK: SpiÅ¡ská Magura) + SpiÅ¡-Gubałówka Highlands (PL: Pogórze Spisko-Gubałowskie)
• Levoča Mountains (SK: Levočské vrchy), with its highest point, Čierna hora (Black Mountain), 1,289 metres
• Bachureň (SK)
• SpiÅ¡-Å ariÅ¡ Intermontane (SK: SpiÅ¡sko-Å¡ariÅ¡ské medzihorie)
• Å ariÅ¡ Highlands (SK: Å ariÅ¡ská vrchovina)
• Orava Basin (SK: Oravská kotlina) + Orava-Nowy Targ Basin (PL: Kotlina Orawsko-Nowotarska)

The adjacent Pieniny range is sometimes considered part of the Podhale-Magura Area; otherwise considered as part of the Eastern section of the Western Beskids.

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