Podhale-Magura Area Explained

Podhale-Magura Area
Photo Size:	300px
Subdivision1 Type:	Regions
Parent:	Outer Western Carpathians
Highest:	Skorušina
Elevation M:	1314
Coordinates:	49.2981°N 19.6919°W

The Podhale-Magura Area (sk|Podhôľno-magurská oblasť; known in Polish as the Orava-Podhale Depression, Obniżenie Orawsko-Podhalańskie) — is a geomorfologic 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:

• Skorušina Mountains (SK: Skorušinské vrchy) + Spiš-Gubałówka Piedmont (PL: Pogórze Spisko-Gubałowskie)
• Sub-Tatra Furrow (SK: Podtatranská brázda, PL: Rów Podtatrzański)
• Spiš Magura (SK: Spišská Magura) + Spiš-Gubałówka Piedmont (PL: Pogórze Spisko-Gubałowskie)
• Levoča Mountains (SK: Levočské vrchy), with its highest point, Čierna hora (Black Mountain), 1,289 metres
• Bachureň (SK)
• Spiš-Šariš Intermontane (SK: Spišsko-šarišské medzihorie)
• Šariš Highlands (SK: Šarišská 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.