The Stołowe Mountains (Polish: [stɔˈwɔvɛ]; in English known as the Table Mountains, Polish: Góry Stołowe, Czech: Stolové hory, German: Heuscheuergebirge) are a mountain range in Poland and the Czech Republic, part of the Central Sudetes. The Polish part of the range is protected as the Stołowe Mountains National Park. The highest peak of the range is Szczeliniec Wielki at 922 meters (3,025 ft) a.s.l.
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👉 Table Mountains in the context of Stołowe Mountains National Park
Stołowe Mountains National Park (Polish: Park Narodowy Gór Stołowych), anglicized to Table Mountains National Park, is a national park in southwestern Poland. It comprises the Polish section of the Table Mountains (Góry Stołowe), which are part of the Sudetes range. It is located in Kłodzko County of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, at the border with the Czech Republic. Created in 1993, the park covers an area of 63.39 square kilometres (24.48 sq mi), of which forests account for 57.79 km. The area of strict protection is 3.76 km.
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- ⭐ Core Definition: Table Mountains
- 👉 Table Mountains in the context of Stołowe Mountains National Park
- Table Mountains in the context of Kłodzko Valley
- Table Mountains in the context of Kudowa-Zdrój
Table Mountains in the context of Kłodzko Valley
The Kłodzko Valley (Polish: Kotlina Kłodzka, Czech: Kladská kotlina, German: Glatzer Kessel) a valley in the Sudetes mountain range, that covers the central part of Kłodzko County in south-western Poland, with the southern tip extending to the Czech Republic around the town of Králíky. The chief and largest town in the valley is Kłodzko.
It is traversed by the upper Eastern Neisse river running from south to north and surrounded by the Table Mountains, Bardzkie Mountains and Bystrzyckie Mountains of the Central Sudetes in the west as well as by the Snieznik Mountains, Golden Mountains and Owl Mountains of the Eastern Sudetes in the east. The mountain passes of Kudowa/Běloves in the west and of Międzylesie/Lichkov in the south connect to Czech areas around Náchod and Králíky respectively. Flowing through the valley, the Eastern Neisse is joined by Biała Lądecka, Bystrzyca Dusznicka and Ścinawka rivers, and then exits it in the northeast through the Bardzkie Mountains to Bardo in Lower Silesia.
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Kudowa-Zdrój [kuˈdɔva ˈzdrui̯] (German: Bad Kudowa, Czech: Chudoba), or simply Kudowa, is a town located below the Table Mountains in Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in the southwestern part of Poland. It has a population of around 10,000 and is located at the Polish-Czech border, just across from the Czech town of Náchod, some 40 km (25 mi) west of Polish Kłodzko and 140 km (87 mi) from Prague.
Kudowa-Zdrój is one of the oldest European spa towns where heart and circulatory system diseases were cured. The downtown area features a park styled on 17th century revival, with exotic plants and a mineral water pump room. Due to its location, the town is famous for tourism, hiking and as the departure point for trips.
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