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Chater-Doug (Ukr Chatir-Dag krymskotat. Çatır Dağ, Chater Dag) - Massif (Yayla), located in the southern Crimean peninsula, 10 km from the sea, the fifth in height in the Crimea, is one of the main ridge of the Crimean mountains . Previously, was not so remote from the main ridge, separated by erosion from rivers Babugan Ulu Uzen and Alma, from Demerdzhi and Dolgorukovskaya plateau river Angara. It consists of lower and upper plateau (plateau). On the upper plateau, there are two peaks: the east - Hangar-Breaker (1453 m) and western - Eklizi-Breaker (1525 m, according to other sources 1527 m). The length of the plateau from north to south - 10 kilometers wide from east to west - about 4 miles.
The name is of Turkic origin: from the Crimean Çatır Dağ translated as "tent-Mountain» (çatır - tent, tent, dağ - Mountain). One of the old names Chater-Dag "Trapezus" (from Greek - "table").
Classical karst region: more than 200 caves, mines, and cavities. By composition of rocks it is divided into two structural floors. The upper complex of limestone, formed from deposits of warm seas of the upper Jurassic and underlying red-brown conglomerates. The thickness of these limestones reaches 1000 meters. The conglomerates, in turn, lie on the impermeable strata of the lower floors - and the Lower Jurassic sediments verhnetriasovogo age. She is known by the name of Taurian series and consists of rhythmically alternating green and black shales, siltstones and sandstones. These rocks are widely distributed throughout the southern and south-western coast of Crimea.
The bottom board is equipped to do the cave Marble and Emine-Bair-Khosar. At Chater Dagh are two villages: one at the Marble Caves, and the second "point" (the firm Onyx tour) on the eastern edge of the lower plateau. According to the reports KCC lower plateau is visited by not less than 40 thousand people.
People have lived on Chatyr Dagh still in the Neolithic era. By the time that the parking on the badger meadow. In the caves Chater-Dag lived herders, hunters...
