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