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Mountain Range District Significance 1: Kalsubai [3] 1,646: Kalsubai Range: Ahmednagar/Nashik/ Highest point in Maharashtra. 2: Salher: 1,567: Selbari Range [4] Nasik: Highest fort [5] in Sahyadris and the 2nd highest peak in Maharashtra. 3 Gawaldev: 1,522 Malsej Range Ahmednagar Peak between Ghanchakkar and Katrabai top 4 Ghanchakkar: 1,509 ...
Kalsubai is the highest peak in Maharashtra and is located in Ahmednagar district in Akole Taluka. Its summit, situated at an elevation of 1,646 metres (5,400 ft), is the highest point in Maharashtra and hence it is known as the "Everest of Maharashtra". [2] The mountain range lies within the Kalsubai-Harishchandragad Wildlife Sanctuary.
Balaghat Range runs south-eastwards from Western Ghats at the Harishchandra Range to the border of Maharashtra and Karnataka states. It extends about 320 kilometers. The range traverses the districts of Ahmednagar, Beed, Latur, Osmanabad and Solapur in Maharashtra. The mountain range has width between five and nine kilometers.
The Ajanta range (Marathi: अजिंठा पर्वतरांगा) is a mountain range in the state of Maharashtra in Central India. The range forms northern wall of the Deccan plateau and acts as a watershed between tributaries of the Godavari and Tapi rivers.
It is bound by the mountain ranges of the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats on the sides, which separate the region from the Western and Eastern Coastal Plains respectively. It covers most of the Indian States of Maharashtra, Telangana, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh excluding the coastal regions, and minor portions of Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
Ghanchakkar 1,532 metres (5,026 ft) is the third highest peak in the Maharashtra State under Sahyadri mountain ranges in western India. Its neighbouring peak Muda 1,520 metres (4,990 ft) is the fourth highest peak in the Maharashtra State under Sahyadris.
Map of Maharashtra. The word Maharashtra, the land of the mainly Marathi-speaking people, appears to be derived from Maharashtri, an old form of Prakrit.Some believe that the word indicates that it was the land of the Mahars and the Rattas, while others consider it to be a corruption of the term 'Maha Kantara' (the Great Forest), a synonym for 'Dandakaranya'. [1]
Saptashrungi Devi Temple on top of hill range Kurma at Saptashrungi Devi Temple. Saptashrungi Temple is two storied shrine with the Devi enshrined in the top floor. The Devi image is carved in a cave at the base of a sheer scarp rock face. [2] [12] The Devi is said to be swayambhu (self-manifested) on a rock on the sheer face of a mountain.