Zagros mountains

Region(s):	Asia, Iran: (Bushehr, Fārs, Ostān-e Chahār Maḩāl va Bakhtīārī, Ostān-e Hamadān, Ostān-e Īlām, Ostān-e Kermānshāh, Ostān-e Kohgīlūyeh va Bowyer Aḩmad, Ostān-e Lorestān), Iraq: (Dihok, Muḩāfaz̧at Arbīl, Muḩāfaz̧at as Sulaymānīyah)
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Max. Elevation:	4 548 m / 14 921 ft
Geology:	Tectonic
Average Length:	776 miles / 1 250 km
Average Width:	300 miles / 186 km

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Range Name(s):	Zagros mountains
Max. Elevation:	4 548 m / 14 921 ft
Region(s):	Asia
Location:	Asia, Iran: (Bushehr, Fārs, Ostān-e Chahār Maḩāl va Bakhtīārī, Ostān-e Hamadān, Ostān-e Īlām, Ostān-e Kermānshāh, Ostān-e Kohgīlūyeh va Bowyer Aḩmad, Ostān-e Lorestān), Iraq: (Dihok, Muḩāfaz̧at Arbīl, Muḩāfaz̧at as Sulaymānīyah)
Activity type:	Please update
Starting Point:	32.63364721485476 49.23643021992848
Parent Range:	Please update

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For passionate travellers and unspoiled nature lovers these sites are of particular interest: they proceed relatively little, and are not as "popular" in alpine community. Here nature appears in the most glowing terms: majestic mountain ridges and running waterfalls, salt lakes and endless green meadows, the local flavour of nomadic camps and light fragile bridges thrown over the gorges.
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The mountains are divided into many parallel sub-ranges (up to 10, or 250 km wide), and have the same age as the Alps. There are lot of peaks above the 4000 m, southern ranges of the Fars Province have somewhat lower summits, reaching 4000 metres.
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The Zagros mountain range is located mainly on the territory of Iran and Iraq in part. It begins in northwestern Iran and roughly corresponds to Iran's western border, and it spans the whole length of the western and southwestern Iranian plateau, ending at the Strait of Hormuz.
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Iran's main oilfields lie in the western central foothills of the Zagros mountain range.

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Last update: Slava Shevtsov (02 Jul 2018) • History

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