Central Mountain Range, Albania

The Central Mountain Range (Albanian: Krahina Malore Qëndrore) is a physiogeographical region in central and eastern Albania. It is one of the four main regions of Albania, the others being Northern Mountain Range, Southern Mountain Range and Western Lowlands. The relief is mountainous, characterized by alpine landscapes covered with dense woods. The central range encompasses all the mountains extending from the Drin Valley near the Albanian Sharr Mountains through the Skanderbeg Mountains, Korab Mountains to the Pindus Mountains bordering the south to the border between Albania and Greece south of Ersekë. It also contains the Albanian parts of the Lake Ohrid and Lake Prespa.Phytogeographically, it falls within the Dinaric Mountains mixed forests, Balkan mixed forests and Pindus Mountains mixed forests terrestrial ecoregions of the Palearctic Temperate broadleaf and mixed forest and Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub respectively. Most of the mountainous terrain was formed by ultramafic rocks, originating from the earth's mantle, which has become serpentinite.