SlovenskÃ© stredohorie

48.5191458Koordinaten: 48 ° 30 'N, 19 ° 0' O

The Slovak Central Mountains ( Slovenské Slow stredohorie ) is a mountain range in the south of central Slovakia of about 70 x 80 km. It is primarily a geomorphological unit is because in everyday use, the term of lesser importance. Approximately in the center of the town of Zvolen is ( Zvolen ), on the northern edge of the mining industry and university town of Banská Bystrica ( Banska Bystrica ).

The Slovak mountain range is part of the Inner Western Carpathians. It is bounded

In the northwest and north by the Fatra - Tatra Area,
To the east by the Slovak Ore Mountains ( Slovenské rudohorie )
In the southeast of Juhoslovenská kotlina ( Südslowakischer boiler) and
In the southwest of the Pannonian Basin.

The mountain range is divided into the following geomorphological subunits:

Vtáčnik ( Bird Mountain )
Pohronský Inovec,
Štiavnica Hills ( Selmec mountains )
Kremnicke Hills ( Kremnica Hills )
Polana,
Ostrôžky,
Javorie,
Krupinská Planina,
Zvolenska kotlina
Pliešovská kotlina
Žiarska kotlina.

The highest elevation is the Polana with 1458 m.

In the mountain range, there are three long-range nature reserves - protected landscape areas Polana, Ponitrie and Štiavnica Hills.