Cambrian Mountains

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Pumlumon ( north side)

With Cambrian Mountains (lat.: Cambria for Wales ) is a series of mountain ranges in Wales are referred to. They include the mountains of the Brecon Beacons in South Wales and extend to Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Snowdonia in the north of the country. The Welsh language is called the area Elerydd.

Originally the term Cambrian Mountains was commonly used for the entire highlands of Wales. Geographically homogeneous area of the central Wales was only from the highest point Pumlumon referred ( 752 m) to the Mynydd Mallaen as Cambrian Mountains is only since the 1950s. In the grounds of the sources of the rivers Severn and Wye are.

Geologically occurs here the Cambrian (named after Cambria ) to light, the lowest chronostratigraphic system of the Paleozoic and thus the Phanerozoic in the Earth's history.