Hostýnsko-vsetínská hornatina is a mountain range in the Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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The mountains are densely forested mainly by secondary spruce

Norway Spruce

Norway Spruce is a species of spruce native to Europe. It is also commonly referred to as the European Spruce.- Description :...

 plantations. Most visited are the bordering Rožnovská Bečva river valley in the north (with Valašské Meziříčí

Valašské Mezirící

Valašské Meziříčí is a town in the Zlín Region, the Czech Republic. The town has 27,960 inhabitants.Vsetínská Bečva and Rožnovská Bečva rivers join in the town to form the Bečva River.-Main sights:* The Kinský Chateau...

 and Rožnov pod Radhoštěm

Rožnov pod Radhoštem

Rožnov pod Radhoštěm is a town in Zlín Region, Czech Republic.-People:* Gustav Brom, lived here* Martina Hingis, lived here as a child* Naphtali Keller, lived and died here* Emil Zátopek, buried here-See also:* Romanian diaspora, Romanian exonyms...

 towns and Dolní, Prostřední and Horní (i.e. Lower, Middle and Upper) Bečva resorts) and the southern Vsetínská Bečva river valley starting in the town of Vsetín

Vsetín

Vsetín is a town in Zlín Region of the Czech Republic. It has around 28,500 inhabitants and lies on the Vsetínská Bečva river.The area around Vsetín, called Vsetínsko, is spread out on the foothills of the Vsetín, Hostýn and Vizovice Highlands around the Bečva River...

 with the resort of Velké Karlovice.

The Hostýnsko-vsetínská hornatina Range is a part of the Western Carpathians

Carpathian Mountains

The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians are a range of mountains forming an arc roughly long across Central and Eastern Europe, making them the second-longest mountain range in Europe...

, it is divided by the Bečva

Becva

The Bečva is a river in the Czech Republic. It is a left tributary of the river Morava. The Bečva is created by two source streams, the Northern Rožnovská Bečva and the Southern Vsetínská Bečva The Bečva is a river in the Czech Republic. It is a left tributary of the river Morava. The Bečva is...

 River valley into the lower eastern Hostýnské vrchy and the higher western Vsetínské vrchy which are a part of the Beskydy Landscape Protected Area. They are built mainly of flysch

Flysch

Flysch is a sequence of sedimentary rocks that is deposited in a deep marine facies in the foreland basin of a developing orogen. Flysch is typically deposited during an early stage of the orogenesis. When the orogen evolves the foreland basin becomes shallower and molasse is deposited on top of...

 deposites and their high sediments in both Bečva rivers valleys. The flysch slopes are rather unstable and thus small landslides are typical for this area. The highest point is Vysoká

Vysoká (Vsetínské vrchy)

Vysoká is the highest mountain of the Vsetínské vrchy, a small mountain range in the Moravian-Silesian Region and Zlín Region of the Czech Republic which is a part of the Western Carpathians. It's high and located at ....

(i.e. High Mountain), at 1024 m (3,359.6 ft), in the easternmost part of the range.