Baba Mountain, Macedonia

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Looking east into the Pelagonian level

The Baba Mountains ( Macedonian Baba Planina Баба Планина ) is a mountain range in southwestern Macedonia. It is part of the Pindos and separates the Lake Prespa from Pelagonia. Its highest mountain is the Pelister with a height of 2601 m. i J., after whom the National Park lying around the mountain is named. The nearest town is Bitola in the east.

The Baba Mountain is the third highest in Macedonia after Korab and the Šar Planina. In addition to the Pelister the mountain chain has nine more two thousand. The mountain range divides the rivers of the region, so that the western end in the Adriatic Sea and the East in the Aegean Sea.