Tag - Minčol (Little Fatra)

Minčol – a peak with a height of 1364 m a.s.l. in the Little Fatra Mountains, in the Central Western Carpathians in Slovakia. It is located in the northern part of the Lúčanská Malá Fatra, in the geomorphological region of the Lúčanské Veterné hole, in its main ridge, about 4 km north of the peak of Veľká lúka. From the east, through the Okopy Pass, it borders the peak of Malý Minčol (1330 m a.s.l.), from the south, through the Prašivé Pass, it borders the peak of Dlhá lúka (1304 m above sea level), the southwestern slopes descend to the Skalnatá Valley and the northern slopes descend to the Stráňavská Valley and the Višňovská Valley.

Minčol is made of granite rocks covered with a cap of limestone-dolomite rocks. In places, granite rocks forming the core of the mountains are exposed. In addition to granodiorites and granites, there are also metamorphic schists, phyllites and arkosic sandstones.

In the lower parts of the slope, there is a mixed forest of the lower montane zone, in the higher parts changing into an upper montane spruce forest. The undergrowth parts are covered with meadows and blueberry bushes. From the top, there is a surrounding panorama of the Kriváňská Malá Fatra, the Lucánská Malá Fatra, the Low Tatras, the Great Fatra, the Western Tatras and the Choč Mountains.

On the ridge and slopes below the Minčol peak there are remains of trenches, bunkers and field fortifications from World War II, built in the spring of 1945. On the Okopy Pass there is an exhibition of artillery weapons used by the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps, whose units took part here in April 1945 in shelling German positions in the Žilina Basin and liberating Žilina.

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