Tags: Mountain Range.
Greater Caucasus (Russian: Большой Кавказ; Azerbaijani: Böyük Qafqaz; Georgian: დიდი კავკასიონი) sometimes translated as Caucasus Major Big Caucasus or Large Caucasus) is the major mountain range of the Caucasus Mountains.The range stretches for about 1200 kilometres (750 mi) from west-northwest to east-southeast between the Taman Peninsula of the Black Sea to the Absheron Peninsula of the Caspian Sea: from the Western Caucasus in the vicinity of Sochi on the northeastern shore of the Black Sea and reaching nearly to Baku on the Caspian.The range is traditionally separated into three parts:Western Caucasus from the Black Sea to Mount ElbrusCentral Caucasus from Mount Elbrus to Mount KazbekEastern Caucasus from Mount Kazbek to the Caspian SeaIn the wetter Western Caucasus the mountains are heavily forested (deciduous forest up to 1500 m coniferous forest up to 2500 m and alpine meadows above the tree line).
