Friuli Venezia Giulia Map Political Regions

Friuli Venezia Giulia Map Political Regions

Friuli-Venezia Giulia is located in the far north-east of the country, bordering Austria to the north, east, Slovenia, the Veneto to the west and overlooks the Adriatic Sea to the south. It is divided into the provinces of Gorizia, Pordenone, Trieste (regional capital) and Udine. Due to its geographical position of the border, but also to protect its unique cultural characteristics, including the Slovenian and Friulian, Friuli-Venezia Giulia is as Trentino-Alto Adige, Valle d'Aosta, Sicily and Sardinia, an autonomous administrative region.
The low density of the region is also the result of a morphology in principle not very favorable to settlement and economic exploitation, especially in the past, when production is based on agriculture. Over 42% of land area is occupied by mountains, the rest is made up of hills and a plain. The section of the mountainous region, young and not yet stabilized orogenic (severe and devastating earthquakes, the last in 1976), includes the Carnian Alps and part of the Julian Alps. Here the Alpine system is presented as a series of peaks and ridges mostly limestone, which affect the 2700 m. (Coglians, 2780 m in the Alps Carnian, and Jôf Montasio, 2754 m in the Julian Alps).
From the Alps Carnian named a vast and picturesque mountain region, located south of the Tagliamento, the meats, which are major centers and Tolmezzo Ampezzo. Some crossings, relatively easy and not very high, to allow connections across the border: the Monte Croce Carnico pass (1360 m) and the seat of Camporosso, better known as a step in Tarvisio (813 m), both of which connect the region with Austria, and the Predel pass (1156 m) with Slovenia. To the south of the same field from the Tagliamento and its main tributary, the Fella, lie the Alps, rugged and barren, high on average between 1500 and 2000 m.