Parâng Mountains group

The Parâng mountain group is a subgroup of mountains in the Southern Carpathians. It is named after the highest of the mountains in the group, the Parâng Mountains.

Parângu Mare (2519 m)

Boundaries

The Parâng group is bounded:

in the east, by the Olt River
in the west, by the Jiu River

Mountains

Parâng Mountains (Munții Parâng)
Şureanu Mountains (Munții Șureanu/M. Sebeșului)
Cindrel Mountains (Munții Cindrel/M. Cibinului)
Lotru Mountains (Munții Lotrului; literally: Mountains of the Thief)
Căpăţână Mountains (Munții Căpățânii; literally: Mountains of the Head or Mountains of the Skull)

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Divisions, Groups, and Ranges of the Carpathian Mountains

Western Carpathians

Inner Western	Slovak Ore Mountains Fatra-Tatra Area Slovak Central Mountains Lučenec-Košice Depression Mátra-Slanec Area and North Hungarian Mountains

Outer Western	South-Moravian Carpathians Central Moravian Carpathians Slovak-Moravian Carpathians West-Beskidian Piedmont Western Beskids Central Beskids Eastern Beskids Podhale-Magura Area

Eastern Carpathians

Inner Eastern	Vihorlat-Gutin Area Bistrița Mountains Căliman-Harghita Mountains Giurgeu-Brașov Depression

Outer Eastern	Central Beskidian Piedmont Low Beskids Eastern Beskids and the Ukrainian Carpathians Moldavian-Muntenian Carpathians

Southern Carpathians

Western Romanian Carpathians

Serbian Carpathians

Transylvanian Plateau (disputed)

Outer Carpathian depressions

Coordinates: 45°20′24″N 23°32′23″E / 45.3400°N 23.5396°E / 45.3400; 23.5396

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Parâng Mountains group

Boundaries

Mountains

See also

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