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Aras Mountains

The 414th highest mountain range in the world

3,153m

Aras Mountains (Aras Dağları), is a mountain range in northeastern Turkey. Also known as Haykakan Par. It is located on the border of Erzurum, Kars, Ağrı and Iğdır provinces. It is a ridge at the middle of the Armenian highlands. It starts near sources of the Araxes river and stretches from the south bank as far west as Mount Ararat. The length of the ridge 200 km, the height - up to 3445 m. It was formed by a chain of volcanoes that arose along a major tectonic fault. The ridge is part of the watershed between the basins of the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf.

Location: Turkey.

Mountain range data from Wikidata (CC0). Elevation is the height of the highest peak.

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