Region: Reglowe Tatra Mounatins

Reglowe Tatra Mounatins – physico-geographic mesoregion located in the Western Carpathians, in the northern part of the Tatra Mountains. The region stretches over a narrow band of 88 km² in Poland and Slovakia, of which 65 km² is in Poland, between the city of Zakopane and the high mountain core of the Tatra Mountains. It covers 11% of the entire Tatra massif and is situated in the area of ​​the Tatra National Park and its Slovak counterpart. The Reglowe Tatras are mountains with a mid-mountain relief built of sedimentary rocks formed in the form of reglane mantles and, on the northern edge of the region, also of the Podhale flysch. The mosaic of rocks that are more resistant to erosive processes and denudation (limestones and dolomites) and less resistant (shales and marls) allowed for the fragmentation of the northern slopes of the Tatra Mountains and the formation of mountain mounds with surrounding depressions and valleys. Traces of glacial transformations can be found only in large transit valleys leading to the high mountain parts (Chochołowska Valley, Kośieliska, Sucha Woda). Smaller valleys (the so-called mountain valleys – Lejowa, Strążyska, Filipka) were not glaciated and are young river valleys, often in the form of ravines. The karst relief and caves are only traceable.

The Reglowe Tatras have been distinguished as a mesoregion in the physical and geographic regionalization of Poland from 2018, carried out by an inter-university team of geographers led by Jerzy Solon. According to Jerzy Kondracki, the region is not isolated in the physical and geographic regionalization of Poland.

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