Ramapo Mountains
| Ramapo Mountains | ||
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 The Ramapo Torne (341 m) in Harriman State Park , New York |
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| location | New Jersey , New York | |
| part of | Appalachian Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 41 ° 8 ′ N , 74 ° 10 ′ W | |
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The Ramapo Mountains are around 50 kilometers long in the Appalachian Mountains in northern New Jersey and the extreme southeast of New York State .
They run in a southeast-northwest direction along a fault that extends from Bear Peak on the east bank of the Hudson River in New York at approximately right angles to the state line between New York and New Jersey. Make this length the westernmost crest of the Appalachian represents and limit the level of the filled Mesozoic sediments and volcanic Newark basin ( Newark Basin ) to the northwest; in the Ramapo Mountains occur then the pending Precambrian metamorphic rocks (gneiss, quartzite) Appalachian to the surface. The mountainous area in the northwest is called New Jersey Highlands , the part still in New York is also called Hudson Highlands .
Although within sight of Manhattan , the steeply rising Ramapo Mountains and their hinterland were difficult to access well into the 20th century. In the remoteness of the mountains, a distinct ethnic group emerged from the 19th century, the so-called "Ramapo Mountain Indians." The ancestry of this group, which sees itself as a descendant of the Lenni Lenape Indian tribe , is still controversial today; mostly it as comparable populations such as those Lumbees in North Carolina or Melungeons the southern Appalachians as a so-called " three-bred isolate " ( triracial isolate ) realized was the white from the blending of African-American and Native American settlers.