Lesser Caucasus

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Satellite View of the Lesser Caucasus ( middle, bottom ).

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The Little Caucasus (Georgian მცირე კავკასიონი mcire k'avk'asioni, Azerbaijani: Kicik Qafqaz Dağları ) is an approximately 600 km long, extending from west-north- west to east-south mountain range in Asia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, which rises up to 4090 m. He is with all its mountain ranges up to 120 km wide and is located on the territory of Georgia, Armenia, Turkey and Azerbaijan.

The Little Caucasus mountains is not an independent, but a portion of the nordanatolisch - northern Iranian mountain chain with Deckenbau and young volcanoes. In the west, bordering on Ararathochland and Pontic Mountains in the southeast, the Elburz Mountains. On Suramigebirge he is immediately adjacent to the north parallel Greater Caucasus. The highest mountain is Mount Aragats in Armenia ( 4090 m). It is covered by firn, but bears no glaciers. In Georgia, the Little Caucasus in Abuli Mountain (3300 m ) reaches its greatest height.

Lake Sevan

In the middle of the Lesser Caucasus of Lake Sevan is surrounded by snow -capped mountain ranges, in about 1900 meters altitude. With 940 km ² it has almost twice the area of Lake Constance and is one of the largest mountain lakes in the world and the largest freshwater reservoir in Armenia and the Caucasus. It is fed out of ten and twenty higher smaller flows. The mountain region around Lake Sevan is steeped in history: here are elaborate burials from the Bronze Age fortresses of Urartu, numerous churches and monasteries Armenian royal and princely families.

Kura

The Kura rises at Kisirindagi Mountain in Turkish small Caucasus. The transverse valley of the Kura is impressive. It cuts some Caucasian mountain ranges in the west of Georgia ( 100 km east of the Black Sea ). Even a watered Creek offers similar between Kirovakan (Armenia ) and the Georgian capital Tbilisi. In the course of the Kura accompanies the north flanks of the Lesser Caucasus, which slopes down to the Transcaucasian sink steeply to the east, flows through these lowlands and flows according to a flow distance of over 1500 km ( according to other sources 1330 km ) in the Caspian Sea south of Baku.

• Mountains in Asia
• Mountains in Turkey
• Region in Asia
• Geography (Azerbaijan )
• Geography (Armenia )
• Geography (Georgia)