Key facts
- Elevation
- 1,725 m (5,659 ft)
- Prominence
- 1,071 m (3,514 ft)
- Listing
- Ribu
- Location
- Poland / Slovakia
- Parent range
- Żywiec Beskids , Oravské Beskydy , Carpathians
- First ascent
- 1782 by Jowin Fryderyk Bystrzycki
- Easiest route
- Hike
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain
- Country
- Slovakia
- Located in
- Námestovo District
- Elevation
- 1725
- Image
- Babia Gora.jpg
- Significant event
- first ascent
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- Commons category
- Babia Góra
- Commons gallery
- Babia Góra
- UNESCO Biosphere Reserve URL
- www.unesco.org/mabdb/br/brdir/directory/biores.asp?code=POL+01&mode=all
- member of
- Man and the Biosphere Programme
- mountain range
- Oravské Beskydy
- topographic isolation
- 40.94
- topographic prominence
- 1071
- located in protected area
- Horná Orava Protected Landscape Area
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Encyclopedic overview
Babia hora memorial of John Paul II
Babia Góra [ˈbabʲa ˈɡura] (in Polish), or Babia hora (in Slovak) is a massif situated on the border between Poland and Slovakia in the Western Beskid Mountains. The name is also applied to the culmination of the massif, Diablak ("Devil's Peak"), which is also the highest peak of this part of the Carpathian Mountains, at 1,725 metres (5,659 ft) above sea level.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Babia Góra” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.