Podtatranská kotlina
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The Podtatranská kotlina ( " boiler at the foot of the Tatra Mountains ") is a location in Slovakia hollow which is counted as a geomorphological unit for Fatra - Tatra Area. Thus it is a part of the Inner Western Carpathians.
Location and boundaries
The valley floor is located in the north of Slovakia. It has an east- west distance of about 60 km, is about 10 km long in the north-south axis and is bounded
- In the north of the Tatra Mountains,
- In the northeast of the Spišská Magura ( Zipser Magura )
- In the east of the Levočské Hills ( Levočské mountains )
- Chrbty in the southeast of the mountain range Kozie,
- In the southwest of the Low Tatras ( Low Tatras )
- In the west of the Velka Fatra ( Great Fatra )
- In the north- west from the mountains Chočské Hills.
Classification
The Podtatranská kotlina is divided into three sub- units:
- Liptovská kotlina (such as " Liptau- boiler " ) to the west,
- Popradská kotlina (such as " Poprad - boiler " ) in the east,
- Tatranské Podhorie (such as " Tatra foothills " ) in the north.
The boundary between the first two subunits corresponds essentially to the European watershed; to the west is the area of the Vah ( Waag ) over the Danube into the Black Sea, drained to the east of the Poprad and Dunajec on the Vistula to the Baltic.
Characteristics and economic
The Podtatranská kotlina lies at an altitude of an average of 700 to 800 m, the deepest point of 475 m ( Vah near Ružomberok ). The mostly treeless region is used for agricultural purposes, but is also industrially developed and fairly densely populated. Some major roads run through the basin ( the railway line Bratislava - Košice, the European Route 50, the partially completed highway D1). Many towns are tourist points of departure for the surrounding mountains, some have even importance for tourism.
Major towns
- Poprad
- Liptovsky Mikulas
- Ružomberok
- Kežmarok
- Svit
- Geography (Slovakia )
- Carpathians