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North part of Chornohora with Hoverla
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North part of Chornohora with Hoverla

Chornohora (literally: Black Mountain, Ukrainian: Чорногора, Polish: Czarnohora) is the highest mountain range in Western Ukraine in Outer Eastern Carpathians, next to Gorgany range. The highest peak of Chornohora is Hoverla (2,062 m) with the other high peaks including Pop Ivan and Petros. The mountains are made of flysch rock. The major part of the range forms the watershed between Prut and Tysa River. The lower parts of Chornohora are inhabitated by Hutsuls, whose primary occupation is herding. The most general definition of a mountain range is a group of mountains bordered by lowlands. ... Western Ukraine (Західно-українська Народна Республіка, West-Ukrainian Peoples Republic) was a short-lived republic that existed in late 1918 and early 1919 in eastern Galicia, Bukovina and Transcarpathia and included the cities of Lviv, Kolomyja, and Stanislav. ... Gorgany (Ukrainian: ) is a mountain range in Western Ukraine in Outer Eastern Carpathians, adjacent to Chornohora range. ... Hoverla mountain (Ukrainian: , Hoverla, Russian: Goverla, Czech and Slovak: Hoverla, Polish: Howerla), at 2,062 m, is the highest mountain in Ukraine and part of the Carpathian Mountains. ... A flysch is a sandstone formation, the word comes from the Swiss German language. ... A watershed is a region of land where water flows into a specified body of water, such as a river, lake, sea, or ocean. ... The Prut river (also known as Pruth) is 950 km long, originating in the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine and flowing southeast to join the Danube river near Reni, east of Galaţi. ... Hutsuls or Huculs (Ukrainian: Гуцули, singular Гуцул) are a group of Ukrainian highlanders, considered a subgroup of Rusyns by some references. ... A man herding goats in Tunisia Herding is the act of bringing individual animals together into a group, maintaining the group and moving the group from place to place—or any combination of those. ...


Major tourist centres of Chornohora are Bystrets, Rakhiv, Verkhovyna, Vorokhta and Yasinia. A tourist boat travels the River Seine in Paris, France Beaches make popular tourist resorts. ...



 
 

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