Gjallica
| Gjallica | ||
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 West flank of Kukës |
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| height | 2485 m above sea level A. | |
| location | Albania | |
| Mountains | Eastern foothills | |
| Coordinates | 42 ° 0 '42 " N , 20 ° 28' 11" E | |
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| rock | Trias lime | |
| Normal way | South ridge from the Topojan pass above the village of Tërshena | |
 View from the ridge to Kukës and Lake Fierza |
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The Gjallica e Lumës is a mountain in northeast Albania . It rises southeast of the city of Kukës . With a height of 2485 m above sea level. A. it is the highest point in the region .
The Gjallica is a ten-kilometer-long ridge that runs straight from the south-south-west to the north-north-east and slopes steeply to the west and east. The mountain is quite isolated: in the south, the Bicaj Gorge , named after the nearby village, separates from Mount Kolesian ( 2050 m above sea level ); in the north lies the deep gorge Gryka e Vanajva , through which the Luma River drains the Gora area in the southeast and which separates the Gjallica from its neighbor Koritnik ( 2393 m above sea level ). Louis describes Gjallica and Koritnik as a continuous mountain range, which is divided in two by the Luma gorge, which is more than 1500 meters deep . Koritnik, Gjallica and Kolseian form the northern end of the Korab Mountains .
On the west side the mountain drops very steeply, more than 2000 meters deep into the Drin valley. Today the Black Drin, the White Drin and the Luma unite at Kukës in the Fierza reservoir .
Gjallica and Koritnik consist of Triassic limestone . In contrast to the Koritnik, there are no glacial traces on the Gjallica. Uranium was mined on the east side of the mountain near the village of Nimça in the 1970s .
The easiest way up is via the south ridge from the east side, where shepherds tend the mountain pastures in simple dwellings in summer . There is a lot of forest on the west side: originally there were oaks and hazel bushes in the lower area , above beeches and black pines up to a height of approx. 2000 to 2100 meters.
Web links
- Report of an ascent (Palm Tree Production; English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Herbert Louis : Albania. A knowledge of the country mainly because of my own travels . Published by J. Engelhorn's successors in Stuttgart, Berlin / Stuttgart March 1927, p. 15 & 148 .
- ↑ a b Akademia e Shkencave e RPSSH (ed.): Gjeografia fizike e Shqipërisë . tape 2 : Vështrim fiziko-gjeografik krahinor. Tirana 1991, p. 121 ff .
- ↑ VeitForABetterWorld: The uranium mines of Nimçe: In the footsteps of Albanian mining on YouTube , February 5, 2020, accessed on March 1, 2020.
- ↑ Eliona Lata: Kërkonim uranium, e zbuluam dhe i vulosëm galeritë. In: Shekulli. August 31, 2012, accessed March 1, 2020 (Albanian).