page_title: Svaneti Range
section_title: Vegetation
hierarchical_section_title: Svaneti Range / Vegetation
caption_attribution_description: English: Svaneti Range viewed from Tetnuldi. Mountains Meklish and Lasili (left), Gvadarashi (centre), Lahili (right).
context_page_description: Svaneti Range is an 85 km long sub-mountain range of the Greater Caucasus, in the Svaneti region of Georgia, located south of the main Caucasus ridge in a west–east direction.
  The Svaneti Range runs along the border between the regions of Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti and Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti in the north of Georgia. It forms the watershed between the Enguri River and the Tskhenistsqali. The right Tskhenistsqali tributary Cheledula separates the mountains from the further south Egrissi Mountains. The Svanetic Mountains reach a maximum altitude of 4009 m in the Laila. The ridge is partially glacier.
context_section_description: On the slopes grow subalpine and alpine vegetation.  
  The slopes of the Svaneti Range at lower elevations  are  covered with forests of beech, spruce and fir.
caption: Svaneti Range, seen from the hillside of Tetlinda. Peaks to the right: Lahili, Gvadaraši, at the left edge of Mekli.
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