The Parâng () mountain group is a subgroup of mountains in the
Southern Carpathians
The Southern Carpathians (also known as the Transylvanian Alps; ; ) are a group of mountain ranges located in southern Romania. They cover the part of the Carpathian Mountains located between the Prahova River in the east and the TimiÈ™ and ...
. It is named after the highest of the mountains in the group, the
Parâng Mountains.
Boundaries
The Parâng group is bounded:
*in the east, by the
Olt River
The Olt ( Romanian and Hungarian; ; or ', , ''Alytos'') is a river in Romania. It is long, and its basin area is . It is the longest river flowing exclusively through Romania. Its average discharge at the mouth is . It originates in the Hă ...
*in the west, by the
Jiu River
The Jiu (; ; ; ) is a river in southern Romania. It is formed near Petroșani by the confluence of headwaters Jiul de Vest and Jiul de Est.
It flows southward through the Romanian counties Hunedoara, Gorj, Mehedinți and Dolj before flowing ...
Mountains
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Parâng Mountains (''Munții Parâng'')
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Șureanu Mountains
The Șureanu Mountains ( German: ''Mühlbacher Gebirge'', Hungarian: ''Kudzsiri-havasok''), belong to Romania's Parâng range in the Southern Carpathians, with peaks frequently exceeding .
The mountains are located north of Romania's Jiu Vall ...
(''Munții Șureanu''/''M. Sebeșului'')
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Cindrel Mountains
Cindrel Mountains (also known as Cândrel Mountains, Cibin Mountains, or the Szeben Alps) are a group of mountains in central Romania in the centre of the Southern Carpathians, in the North-East of the Parâng Mountains group.
From the Transyl ...
(''Munții Cindrel''/''M. Cibinului'')
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Lotru Mountains
Lotru Mountains () are a group of mountains that are part of the Southern Carpathians mountain range, in southern Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europ ...
(''Munții Lotrului''; literally: ''Mountains of the Thief'')
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Căpățână Mountains Căpățână or Căpățînă is a Romanian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Chesarie Căpățână (1784–1846), Wallachian bishop
* Eugen Căpățână (born 1986), Romanian rugby union footballer
* Ion Ionescu-Căpățână ...
(''Munții Căpățânii''; literally: ''Mountains of the Head'' or ''Mountains of the Skull'')
See also
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Carpathian Mountains
The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians () are a range of mountains forming an arc across Central Europe and Southeast Europe. Roughly long, it is the third-longest European mountain range after the Ural Mountains, Urals at and the Scandinav ...
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Retezat-Godeanu Mountains group
The Retezat–Godeanu mountain group is a subgroup of mountains in the Southern Carpathians, Romania. It is named after the highest mountains in the group, the Retezat Mountains.
Boundaries
The Retezat–Godeanu group of mountains is bounded:
*i ...
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Făgăraș Mountains group
The Făgăraș mountain group is a subgroup of mountains in the Southern Carpathians. It is named after the highest of the mountains in the group, the Făgăraș Mountains.
Boundaries
The Făgăraș group is bounded:
*in the west, by the Olt Rive ...
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Parângu Mare
Parângu Mare (, "Big Parângu") is a mountain peak in Romania. At above sea level, it is the highest peak of the Parâng Mountains, located in the Parâng Mountains group of the Southern Carpathians. It straddles the border of the Romanian count ...
peak
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Rânca
Rânca () is a recently developed Romanian resort, located at 1,600 meters (5,250 ft) elevation, at the foothill of Păpuşa Peak in the Parâng Mountains.
It is located 17.9 kilometers away from Novaci, Gorj County, after pass ...
References
External links
Small gallery from the Parang Mountains groupMaps of Parâng and other mountain ranges in the Transylvanian Alps
*http://www.carpati.org/
*http://www.alpinet.org/
Mountain ranges of Romania
Mountain ranges of the Southern Carpathians
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