Dienten Mountains

Salzburg Slate Alps
Salzach valley with Burg Hohenwerfen
Highest point
Peak	Hundstein
Elevation	2,117 m (6,946 ft)
Coordinates	47°20′17″N 12°54′40″E / 47.33806°N 12.91111°E / 47.33806; 12.91111
Dimensions
Length	60 km (37 mi)
Width	10 km (6.2 mi)
Geography
Salzburg Slate Alps (in red) within the Alps. Borders of the range according to the Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps
Country	Austria
State	Salzburg
Range coordinates	47°23′N 13°13′E / 47.39°N 13.21°E / 47.39; 13.21Coordinates: 47°23′N 13°13′E / 47.39°N 13.21°E / 47.39; 13.21
Parent range	Northern Limestone Alps
Geology
Age of rock	Paleozoic-Early Triassic
Type of rock	Greywacke zone/Werfen Formation

The Salzburg Slate Alps (German: Salzburger Schieferalpen) are a mountain range of the Eastern Alps, in the Austrian state of Salzburg. Situated within the greywacke zone, they could be regarded either as part of the Northern Limestone Alps or of the Central Eastern Alps.

The range is located between the Kitzbühel Alps (Tyrolean Slate Alps), the continuation of the greywacke zone beyond Lake Zell and Saalach river in the west, and the Dachstein massif in the east. In the north it is adjacent to the Berchtesgaden Alps, while in the south the Salzach and Enns valleys separates it from the High and Low Tauern ranges of the Alpine crest. The Salzburg Slate Alps stretch about 60 kilometres (37 mi) in west-east dirction, from the Salzburg Pinzgau region, north of the Salzach, into the Pongau region and along the Enns river up to the border with Styria.

This inner-Alpine Mittelgebirge group, designated by the Alpine Club Classification of the Eastern Alps (AVE) based on its underlying rock, cannot be assigned from a geological perspective either to the Northern or the Central Alps, so it does not fit into the general tripartite division of the Eastern Alps and, as a result, is variously treated in the literature.