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The Zagros Mountains [a] are a mountain range in Iran, northern Iraq, and southeastern Turkey.The mountain range has a total length of 1,600 km (990 miles). The Zagros range begins in northwestern Iran and roughly follows Iran's western border while covering much of southeastern Turkey and northeastern Iraq.
The Zagros are home to many threatened and endangered animals, including the Persian leopard (Panthera pardus tulliana), Syrian brown bear (Ursus arctos syriacus), mouflon (Ovis orientalis orientalis), wolf (Canis lupus), striped hyena (Hyena hyena), Blanford's fox (Vulpes cana), and Zagros Mountains mouse-like hamster (Calomyscus bailwardi).
The area pertaining to the hilly flanks is predominantly characterised as the foothills of the Zagros Mountains.Intercepting through the modern-day borders of Turkey, Iraq, and Iran, the region spans over 1000 miles from the lower central area of the Turkish peninsula, curling around the northern sector of the Tigris river, then running along the foothills of the Zagros Mountain range.
It is believed that Ecbatana is located in the Zagros Mountains, the east of central Mesopotamia, [2] on Hagmatana Hill (Tappe-ye Hagmatāna). [3] Ecbatana's strategic location and resources probably made it a popular site even before the 1st millennium BC. [ 4 ]
The Amadiya valley within the Great Zab drainage basin is the third-largest valley in the Iraqi Zagros, after the Shahrazor and the Ranya Plain. [12] [13] The Great Zab rises in the highlands of the Zagros Mountains, where a climate with cold winter and annual precipitation in excess of 1,000 millimetres (39 in) prevails.
Parâw (Kurdish:پهڕاو for "full of water") is a mountain located to the north east of Kermanshah city in western Iran. Parâw, with an approximate length of 80 km and an area of 880 square kilometres is part of the Zagros Mountains. [2] Paraw is one of the 1515 Ultra-prominent peak of the world.
HSNP will be the largest protected mountain area in Kurdistan; it is expected to cover more than 1,000-square-kilometre (390 sq mi) with a elevation between 900 metres (3,000 ft) and 3,609-metre (11,841 ft) (at Halgurd Peak), of the Sakran Mountain Range, a part of the Zagros Mountains, which is famous for the spectacular and impressive rock ...
Gardaneh ye Kuli Kesh Romanized Gardaneh i Kuli Kash, Gardaneh e quli Kosh (Arabic: گَردَنِۀ كُولی كُش or Persian: گردنه کولى کش or Persian: گَردَنِۀ كُولی كوش) is a mountain pass of the Zagros mountain Range.