Czerwone Wierchy (, also known as ''Red Peaks'') are a group of four grassy and domed peaks located on the main ridge of the

Western Tatras The Western Tatras (; ) are mountains in the Tatras, part of the Carpathian Mountains, located on the Polish- Slovak border. The mountains border the High Tatras in the east, Podtatranská kotlina in the south, Choč Mountains in t ...

on the border between

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

and

Slovakia Slovakia, officially the Slovak Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the west, and the Czech Republic to the northwest. Slovakia's m ...

. Their name derives from the rush Juncus trifidus, in which the peaks are covered and whose blades turn red in autumn. Czerwone Wierchy are made up of the following summits (west to east): * Ciemniak / Temniak (2096 m) * Krzesanica / Kresanica (2122 m) * Małołączniak / Malolúčniak (2096 m) * Kopa Kondracka / Kondratova kopa (2005 m) They mostly consist of sedimentary rocks, such as

limestone Limestone is a type of carbonate rock, carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material Lime (material), lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different Polymorphism (materials science) ...

or dolomite, however their summits are covered in

granite Granite ( ) is a coarse-grained (phanerite, phaneritic) intrusive rock, intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly coo ...

and other crystalline rocks. The massif features numerous limestone caves, including the

Jaskinia Wielka Śnieżna Jaskinia Wielka Śnieżna ("great snowy cave") is a limestone cave system in Mount Małołączniak in the Western Tatra Mountains, of the Carpathian Mountains System, in southern Poland. The cave is within Tatra National Park, Poland, Tatra National ...

, the longest and deepest cave in Poland.

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