Mountains and hills of England the Pennines (often called "the backbone of England") continues into the Yorkshire Dales, a limestone-dominated area of broad valleys and moorland. The Yorkshire Three Peaks are some of the highest summits in the area, which became a national park in 1954. The Yorkshire Dales end at Skipton, and a short distance to the south is a range of moors that rises up between the urban cores of Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire. The range has no continuous name - the western part as far as Blackburn is called the West Pennine Moors, the eastern part north of the A646 (including
Baoruco Mountain Range Baoruco Mountain Range The Baoruco Mountain Range—Sierra de Baoruco (or Sierra de Bahoruco) is a mountain range located in the far southwestern region of the Dominican Republic. It is within Pedernales, Independencia, Barahona, and Baoruco Provinces . The range is a continuation of the Massif de la Selle in Haiti. Part of the area is protected within the Sierra de Bahoruco National Park ("Parque Nacional Sierra de Bahoruco"), also a Biosphere reserve. The Sierra de Baoruco are noted for the blue colored concretions called larimar, which formed in the range's volcanic vesicles. Larimar is the Dominican name for a mineral