Region: Low Beskid Mountains

Low Beskid Mountains – a mountain range in the Carpathians, located in the north-eastern part of Slovakia and south-eastern part of Poland. The highest peak is Busov (1002 m a.s.l.).

It consists of a complex of landscape units that are a link between the Western and Eastern Carpathians. It includes the following landscape units in Slovakia: Busov, Ondavská vrchovina, Laborecká vrchovina and Beskydské predhorie. There are only two vegetation layers: the foothills (up to 550 m above sea level) and the lower montane forest. The foothills are made up of the remains of original oak and hornbeam forests, alders and wicker thickets in the river valleys, while the lower montane forests are fir, beech and pine forests. Beech stands are particularly numerous, and spruce is almost absent.

The Low Beskid Mountains form a transverse morphostructural depression between the East Slovak Lowland and the Sandomierz Basin. Only 2 basic tectonic units of the Carpathians are represented in them – the outer flysch belt in the north and the barbel belt in the south. The diversification of tectonic movements and exogenous processes resulted in the appearance of two types of relief here: erosion furrows to tectonic-erosive and hilly basins, and structural ridges to tectonic-structural in upland relief.

Hikes in the Low Beskid Mountains: