The beauty of the Carpathian reserves. Chornohora

One of the most beautiful places in the Carpathians are the Carpathian Reserves.

In the stories, essays, poems, songs, paintings in art , with a lot of love sung by the nature of the Carpathians.

But perhaps one of the most beautiful nature reserves , has long been the Chornohora , located between 48 ° and 49 ° latitude and the Nordic 23 ° -25 ° east longitude. This mountain range dividing the Tisza and Prut river basins , the natural border between Ivano -Frankivsk and Transcarpathian regions.

High and inaccessible , with a unique and varied vegetation , Chornohora has long been included in a folk art . Folk songs , legends and fairy tales are full of references Verhoviny about Chornohora , its impenetrable jungle , steep cliffs , on the dense virgin forests and spacious valleys.

Old local inhabitants can show the traveler the cave where the legendary Dovbush hidden treasures paths that went his opryshky .(the followers)

The rich folk art , as well as striking natural beauty of Chornohora have inspired many writers and poets.

The originality of relief, rich colors have long been attracted here by many travelers, explorers and tourists.

Chornohora mountain range stretches from the north- west to south -east, its length of about 40 kilometers. Depart from it in both directions spurs . Chornohora is the absolute height of 500-2058 meters above sea level , the relative - up to 1500 meters. The highest points are in the mountains Hoverla ( 2058 meters) . Fr. Ivan ( 2026 ) , Petros ( 2022 ) , Gutin - Tomnatyk ( 2018 ) . The slopes of the ridge is mainly characterized by a calm relief, which is broken in places by steep slopes and cliffs .

The formation of the modern morphological appearance of Chornohora has had a very big impact former glaciation , which were formed as a result of the sharp peaks and along the north-eastern and south- western slope of the valley of Chornohora , surrounded by places of large rocky walls . At the bottom of the basins are the ruins of bottom moraine with a characteristic hilly terrain and small lakes .

In addition , the relict glacial forms , the slopes of Chornohora penetrate deep valleys upper reaches of the White Tisza, Prut and Cheremosh.

It is interesting in geomorphology sharp rocky ridge thick Small Goats , which branches off from the main ridge of the mountain Turkul . Stretched out in length by 800 meters , the crest falls suddenly to the north pole figure sharp . Next , a distance of 600 meters from the main ridge , along with the Lesser goat, but twice as long , rocky ridge branches off the Great Goats . Its shape it resembles the sharp-toothed saw. No less beautiful scenic rocky Spitz (1866 meters above sea level) with a fantastically sharp and protruding rounded rocky stones.

 Chornohora , like most mountain ranges of the Eastern Carpathians , consists of flysch rocks of the Cretaceous and Paleogene , in which the upper layer is a powerful so-called Magura sandstones. Chornohora's climate is moderately moist . The distribution of temperature, precipitation, relative humidity , solar radiation depends on the height above sea level. The higher the mountain , the lower the average temperature .
Winter is cold here .
 In the lower parts of the slopes, the average temperature of the warmest month (July ) is 15,7-17,5 ° above zero, and the average temperature of the coldest month (January ) - 4,9-6,8 ° below zero.