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Also known as Ucka

The Učka (, ) is a mountain range in western Croatia. It rises behind the Opatija riviera, on the eastern side of the Istrian peninsula.

Key facts

Mountain.name
Učka
Mountain.photo
Ucka-Kvarner1.jpg
Mountain.photo_caption
View from Kvarner Gulf
Mountain.map
Croatia
Mountain.map_caption
Location in Croatia
Mountain.label_position
left
Mountain.mapframe
yes
Mountain.mapframe zoom
9
Mountain.country
Croatia
Mountain.parent
Dinaric Alps
Mountain.highest
Vojak
Mountain.elevation_m
1396

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

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The Učka (, ) is a mountain range in western Croatia. It rises behind the Opatija riviera, on the eastern side of the Istrian peninsula.

It forms a single morphological unit together with the Ćićarija range which stretches from the Bay of Trieste to Rijeka. Učka is a limestone massif with numerous areas of karst, stretching for from the Poklon Pass (920 m) to Plomin Bay, and is between wide.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Učka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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