Stavropol 's elevation (in Russian: Ставропольская возвышенность, Stavropol'skaja vozvyšennost') is a region extensively extended in Southern European Russia, in the Ciscaucasian region, administratively within the borders of the Stavropol Territory. >
The Stavropol Highland region is delimited by the Kuma river course east of Kuban 'west; north to the depression of Kuma-Manyč and southwards to the Caucasus Mountains. Average height ranging from 300 to 600 meters, culminating at 831 meters in their east section (Mount Strižament '').
The continental climate is rather arid; As a consequence, the most common vegetal mantle is the steppe, replaced in the less arid and higher areas of a tree planted steppe.
In the region there are some cities of great importance: in addition to the important center of Stavropol, the capital of the homonymous kraj, named after the hills, other major cities are Svetlograd, Budënnovsk, Nevinnomyssk. Notemodify wikitesto ikitesto
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