Brněnská vrchovina

Nice place for walks

The Brno Highlands is a geographic name, a natural area roughly in the range of altitudes of 200 to 735 m with a rugged surface, in terms of regional geomorphic relief of the Czech Republic delimited by the geomorphological sub-system approximately 2042 km² in the eastern part of the Czech-Moravian geomorphological system. Czech Highlands Province. Within the administrative area, the majority of the area is located in the South Moravian Region, in which the western part of the regional city of Brno, the peripheral parts lie in neighboring regions, larger in the northeast in the Olomouc Region and north in the small outcropping to the Pardubice region, roughly in the Jevíčko - Petrůvka triangle. near the town of Trnávky - Jaroměřice. Approximate demarcation along the perimeter (without territorial projections), connecting the points from the northernmost part of the Pardubice Region with the towns of Jevíčko, Víska u Jevíček, Láz and the northernmost point approximately at the Jevíčka inlet to Třebůvka on the cadastral area. Petrůvka u Městečka Trnávky, then southeast to the Olomouc Region, Plumlov and Ondratice. Further in the South Moravian region direction Sivice, Brno (parts Lisen, Obrany, Old Brno, Styrice), to the southwest to Miroslav, Hostěradice, from them to the northeast to Moravsky Krumlov, stop near Brno, Veverska Bityska, Tisnov, territorial projection Lomnicka - Lomnice, from Lomnička to Lysice, Sebranice, Letovice to Stvolová, from it to the east to Dolní Smržov, Svárov, then to the southeast to Vanovice and again to the northeast to Velké Opatovice and the Pardubice Region. As the name suggests, the geographical name derived from the city of Brno, its western part situated in a natural area. The mean altitude is about 413 m, the most important probably north of Brno is the natural area of ​​the Moravian Karst (g. Sub-units of the Drahanská vrchovina), attractive caves with rich karst decoration (Balcarka, Kateřinská, Punkevní, Sloupsko-šošůvské etc.). the most famous abyss of Macocha, at the bottom with the river Punkva. The Moravian Karst Protected Landscape Area, accessible from the town of Blansko in the central part of the Brno Highlands, the city on railway line 260 (Česká Třebová - Brno) with good transport services, practically from all railway stations and stops in the track section Rájec - Jestřebí to Bílovice nad Svitavou hiking trails, each attractive romantic landscape. The highest point of the Brno Highlands is Skalky Hill (735 m) in the Protivanovská Plain g. Buková u Protivanov (g. Whole Drahanská vrchovina). The lowest position is about 200 m above sea level at the level of three rivers, Jihlava, Svitava and Svratka. The lowest in the flow of Brno Svitava river around the Obřanský bridge at the beginning of the mill race and the river Svratka at Svratka Bridge, respectively. railway. The Jihlava River is the lowest after the flow of Dolní Kounice at the inlet to the cadastral area. Pravlov, before entering the Niva Jihlava Nature Park (the one outside the Czech Highlands in the g. Province of the Western Carpathians / Outland Carpathian Lowlands). The Brno Highlands are divided into three areas of a smaller natural area, lower geomorphological units, Boskovice furrow on the northwest edge, narrow and elongated from northeast to southwest, from the northernmost point (above) roughly to Moravský Krumlov, then Bobravská vrchovina, approximately triangle Brno , Miroslav and Lažany north of Kuřim and the largest Drahanská vrchovina highlands, northeast of Brno, towards Lažany, Biskupice u Jevíček, Ondratice, Sivice and again to Brno (Lisen).