Mount Hoverla (
Cyrillic: Говерла,
Hoverla; ; ;
Goverla, ) at , is the highest mountain in
Ukraine and part of the
Carpathian Mountains. The mountain is located in the Eastern
Beskides, in the
Chornohora region. The slopes are covered with
beech and
spruce forests, above which there is a belt of
sub-alpine meadows called
polonyna in Ukrainian. At the eastern slope there is the main spring of the
Prut River. The name is of
Old Hungarian origin and means 'snow mountain'. Hoverla is composed of sandstone, a sedimentary rock type.
