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Mount Dumbier (right) and Mount Chopok (middle)
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Mount Dumbier (right) and Mount Chopok (middle)

The Low Tatra or Low Tatras (Slovak Nízke Tatry) is a mountain range in central eastern Slovakia. It is located south of the High Tatra, from which it is separated by the valley of the Vah river.


The valley of the important Hron river flows to the south of the Low Tatra.


The ridge runs west-eastwards and is about 80 km long. The mountains are densely forested. Most of the area is protected as the Low Tatra National Park (Národný park Nízke Tatry, abbreviated NAPANT) established in 1978.


The highest mountains of the Low Tatra are located in its western part. The Ďumbier rises to 2,042 m. Its neighbour, the Chopok is only a little bit lower (2,024 m) and accessible by a chairlift, therefore being the most frequented place of the mountains. Further east the mountains are much lower, but rise again at the eastern end to the peak of Kráľova hoľa (1,946 m).


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Tatra mountains or Tatras or Tatra (in Polish and Slovak Tatry, which is a plural proper noun) is a mountain range on the border of Poland and Slovakia, the highest part of the Carpathian Mountains.
The Tatras consists of the Western Tatras (Slovak: Západné Tatry, Polish: Tatry Zachodnie) and the Eastern Tatras (Východné Tatry, Tatry Wschodnie).
The Tatras should be distinguished from another Slovakian mountain range, the Low Tatras (in Slovak NĂ­zke Tatry), situated south of the Tatras.
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