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** Napaeae ( mountain valleys, glens )
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Napaeae and valleys
In Greek mythology, the Napaeae ( Ancient Greek: ναπαῖαι, from νάπη ; English translation: " a wooded dell ") were a type of nymph that lived in wooded valleys, glens or grottoes.
mountain and valleys
Access inland from the coast is limited to a few narrow valleys because mountain ridges.
Much of the Alpine culture is unchanged since the medieval period when skills that guaranteed survival in the mountain valleys and in the highest villages became mainstays, leading to strong traditions of carpentry, woodcarving, baking and pastry-making, and cheesemaking.
The western valleys, along the Haitian border, remain relatively dry, with less than of annual precipitation, due to the rain shadow effect caused by the central and northern mountain ranges.
From north to south, the mountain ranges and valleys are:
Except for a few valleys, the mountain area proper is suitable only for grazing in the foothills and steppes ; adequate soil and rainfall, however, make cultivation possible.
Cultivation on nonirrigated land is limited essentially to the mountain valleys, foothills, and steppes, which have or more of rainfall annually.
The coldest temperatures are in mountain valleys.
Moreover, refugees belonging to minority sects have settled in its virtually inaccessible mountain valleys.
Mountain ranges are usually segmented by highlands or mountain passes and valleys.
Geologists describe this type of landscape as a " drowned coast ," where a rising sea level has invaded former land features, creating bays out of valleys and islands out of mountain tops.
The land area is composed of varying topographic features: valleys and desert account for 82 percent of the land mass ; mountain ranges, 15 percent ; and the coastal plain, 3 percent.
In the western sector, China claimed portions of the 41, 000 km² Pamir Mountains area, a region of soaring mountain peaks and glacia filled valleys where the borders of Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Soviet Union, and China meet in Central Asia.
The glaciers are confined to the northern slopes of the central Pyrenees, and do not descend, like those of the Alps, far down into the valleys, but have their greatest lengths along the direction of the mountain chain.
A short coastal strip on the Adriatic Sea, an alpine mountain region adjacent to Italy and Austria, mixed mountain and valleys with numerous rivers to the east.
The massive mountain ranges are cut by hundreds of canyons and gorges at the bottom of which run streams that flow into larger river valleys where the majority of the country's population lives and works.
Access inland from the coast is limited to a few narrow valleys because mountain ridges, with elevations of 1, 525 to 1, 800 meters in the west and 3, 000 to 4, 000 meters in the east in Kaçkar Mountains, form an almost unbroken wall separating the coast from the interior.
The plant grows naturally along stream beds in mountain river valleys in Japan.
Large lava flows of andesite and basalt covered parts of the mountain, including one around the year 100 BCE that traveled all the way into the Lewis and Kalama river valleys.
The foothills and river valleys between the mountain ranges provide a mosaic of cropland and deciduous parklands.
Only in the more remote mountain valleys was Ladin able to survive.
This is similar to the locating of optical telescopes to avoid light pollution, with the difference being that radio observatories are often placed in valleys to further shield them from EMI as opposed to clear air mountain tops for optical observatories.
Both of these valleys were formed within the last few million years and both are bounded by north – south-trending mountain ranges.
The main mountain regions on either side are named, as are the various local valleys.
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