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Our kennel Rags Puma is situated in the municipality Svor, on the southern slope, in centre of the Lusatian Mountains.

The Lusatian Mountains (in Czech Lužické hory) are a small mountainous range in Northern Bohemia between Děčín and Liberec. It lies at the border between Germany and the Czech Republic. The smaller German part is called the Zittau Mountains (in German: Zittauer Gebirge).

Geologically the Lusatian Mountains consist prevailingly of upper Cretaceous sandstone. In many places they are penetrated by Tertiary magmatic rocks, basalts and trachytes, which are more resistant to weathering than the surrounding sandstone. In volcanic necks and domes, therefore, they nowadays project over the surrounding sandstone's. The resulting relief of the Lusatian Mountains, therefore, is characteristic by wooded elongated ridges protruded by pronounced conical necks and rounded hills. In the north the Cretaceous sandstones have a tectonic contact with the granitoid masses of the Lusatian massif, the so-called Lusatian fault. Along of this fault the granitoid rocks were overthrusted over the younger sandstones. On several places of this fault, e.g. at Doubice, small blocks of Jurassic limestones were drawn to the surface. The Quaternary frequently produced extensive cones of rock debris on the slopes of the volcanic hills. At Jítrava are deposited sediments of the continental ice sheet which at its greatest extent reached as far as the eastern boundary of the hill range. In the 17th and 18th century at a few places low-grade iron ores had been mined. In the surroundings of Jiřetín pod Jedlovou thin veins of low-grade silver-bearing lead-zinc and copper ores were mined.

The Lusatian Mountains are not very high. Nevertheless, they are an important climatic boundary separating the northern lowland from the hilly region of central Bohemia. The highest peak is the Luž (793 m above sea level) situated directly on the German borders. Other important peaks are, e. g., Jedlová (774 m), Klíč (760 m), Hvozd (750 m) and Studenec (736 m). Thanks to the relatively high precipitations the Lusatian Mountains are rich in water. Their sources have here the river Kamenice and its main tributary Chřibská Kamenice and several tributaries of the Ploučnice river, e.g. the brooks Sporka, Svitavka, Heřmanický potok. The northern slopes are drained by the Lužnička brook. The main ridge is part of the main European divide between the North and the Baltic seas.