Mosor (), or Mount Mosor (''Massarus Mons''; ), is a mountain range in
Croatia
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located near the city of
Split
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on the
Adriatic coast
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. It belongs to
Dinaric Alps
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, and stretches from the pass of Klis in the northwest to the
Cetina River
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in the southeast.
The highest point is the eponymous Mosor peak at 1,339
m.a.s.l. There are no inhabited areas on the mountain above 600 metres. Mosor is mainly composed of karst —
limestone
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rocks.
It attracts mountaineers from Croatia. There are two
alpine huts and many mountaineering paths on Mosor.
Mountain huts
In the 1935–1936 season, the ''Dom Kraljice Marije''
mountain hut
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, at in elevation, saw 720 visitors, including 10 Czechoslovak, 7 German and 4 Italian citizens. The logger's hut on ''Uznička Kosa'' at saw 29 visitors. In the 1936–1937 season, the ''Dom Kraljice Marije'' saw 740 visitors, including 5 German, 2 Czechoslovak, 2 Austrian and 1 English citizen; the logger's hut was closed that year. In the 1937–1938 season it saw 541 visitors, including 17 Czechoslovak, 9 Italian, 5 Austrian, 3 German and 1 Polish citizens; the logger's hut below ''Kunjevoda'' at saw 138 visitors.
References
Further reading
Bibliography
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External links
Croatian climbing club "Mosor" (''Hrvatsko planinarsko društvo "Mosor"'')
Mountain ranges of Croatia
Landforms of Split-Dalmatia County
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