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Valley in the upper third of a mountain range
The upper Engadine
The valley of the
Rilska River ,
Rila Mountain,
Bulgaria
A high valley (
German : Hochtal ) or high-level valley
[1]
[2] is a
valley in the upper third of a
mountain range .
[3] More loosely it can refer to any mountain valley.
Examples of high valleys are the
Kathmandu Valley in the
Himalayas at a height of 1,350 m, the
Engadine and
St. Moritz in the
Swiss
Alps at 1,856 metres and the
Tannheimer Tal in
Austria at 1,100 metres above sea level.
See also
References
^ Daigaku, Tohoku. Science Reports. Series 7 . Issues 13-16, p. 101. 1964.
^ Scheu et al. (1934), p. 56.
^ Leser, Hartmut, ed. (2005). Wörterbuch Allgemeine Geographie , 13th ed., dtv, Munich,
ISBN
978-3-423-03422-7 .