The Maramures Depression is an intramontane depression located in the northern part of the Eastern Carpathians, between the Oas, Gutai, Lapus and Tibles Mountains, to the west, southwest and south, the Rodna Mountains to the southeast, the Maramures Mountains to the east and northeast and border with Ukraine to the north. The Maramures depression occupies 13% of the county`s surface, is of complex origin tectonics, dam, volcanic and differentiated erosion, has a general hilly level, at 750-800 m, through which flow the rivers Iza, Mara and Viseu separated by gorges cut into crystalline or conglomerates. In the south, the Maramures depression is closed by the volcanic group massifs. They dominate the surrounding regions through petrographic cliffs of several hundred meters. Maramures County, Romania, Europe.
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