Stryisko-Sians'ka Verkhovyna (, Stryi-San Highland) is a part of
Eastern Beskids
The Eastern Beskids or Eastern Beskyds (; ; ; ) are a geological group of mountain ranges of the Beskids, within the Outer Eastern Carpathians. As a continuation of the Central Beskids, this mountain range includes the far southeastern corner ...
within
Sambir and
Stryi Raion
Stryi Raion () is a raion (district) in Lviv Oblast in western Ukraine. Its administrative center is Stryi. Population:
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Lviv Oblast was reduced to seven, a ...
s,
Lviv Oblast
Lviv Oblast (, ), also referred to as Lvivshchyna (, ), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast in western Ukraine. The capital city, capital of the oblast is the city of Lviv. The current population is
History Name
The region is named ...
.
Stryisko-Sians'ka Verkhovyna is part of the
Eastern Carpathians
Divisions of the Carpathians are a categorization of the Carpathian mountains system.
Below is a detailed overview of the major subdivisions and ranges of the Carpathian Mountains. The Carpathians are a "subsystem" of a bigger Alps-Himalaya Sy ...
and is located in the upper reaches of rivers
Opir River,
Stryi River
The Stryi () is a river in western Ukraine. It starts in the Carpathian Mountains and snakes through the mountains running for . After it passes Stryi. The river continues for another before joining the Dniester near Khodoriv.
Route
The ri ...
and
San River
The San (; ''Sian''; ) is a river in southeastern Poland and western Ukraine. It is a tributary of the river Vistula. With a length of , the San is the 6th-longest Polish river. It has a basin area of 16,877 km2, of which 14,426 k ...
.
There are protected areas within the territory:
,
zakaznik
''Zakaznik'' (, transliterated: ''zakaznik, zakazniki''; , transliterated: ''zakaznyk'', ''zakaznyky''; Belarusian: заказнік, заказнікі, transliterated: zakaznik, zakazniki) is a type of protected area in former Soviet republics ...
s and .
Gallery
File:Slavske. View of the Trostyan Mountain.JPG, Southern slope of the Trostyan Mountain.
File:View of the village Plav'ye (Skole Raion).JPG, View of the village Plavie (Skole Raion)
File:Гірський хребет Довжки. Сколівський район..JPG, The mountain range Dovzhky in Skole district.
File:Skole Beskids. Mountain road..JPG, Mountain road in the Skole Beskids.
File:National Park Skole Beskids. Place of rest..JPG, Resting place
File:Recreation in Ukrainian Carpathians. Skole district.jpg, Recreation in Ukrainian Carpathians
File:Klymets Natural Preserve in the “Skole Beskids”.JPG, Klymets Natural Preserve in the “Skole Beskids”.
References
Geography of Lviv Oblast
Mountain ranges of the Eastern Carpathians
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