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The northern border of the plain is made up by the Camipāṇḍa ("great white") mountains, one of the longest mountain chains of Calémere and also the highest. It contains Calémere's highest mountain, mount Laikadhāṣṭra, which is 5.Ɛ77 pā (10,315<sub>10</sub> — about 10,717 m = 35,160 ft) high and lies on the border between the dioceses of Ñarigeiras and Dūlāyirjaiṭa (the actual peak is in Ñarigeiras; the border passes through a slightly shorter peak to the northwest). | The northern border of the plain is made up by the Camipāṇḍa ("great white") mountains, one of the longest mountain chains of Calémere and also the highest. It contains Calémere's highest mountain, mount Laikadhāṣṭra, which is 5.Ɛ77 pā (10,315<sub>10</sub> — about 10,717 m = 35,160 ft) high and lies on the border between the dioceses of Ñarigeiras and Dūlāyirjaiṭa (the actual peak is in Ñarigeiras; the border passes through a slightly shorter peak to the northwest). | ||
The southern border between the Great Plain and the equatorial rainforest (which is, topographically, also mostly plain) is marked by a distinct biome that makes this area so special: the huge wetlands created by the many rivers that flow northward from the various hills in the northern part of the rainforest. This area is basically a huge network of swampy forests, and is known in Chlouvānem sources as the ''halumi paɂītumi no ṣveya'' - literally "wall of [[w:igapó|igapós]] and [[w:várzea forest|várzeas]]", and extends through the dioceses of Dhārvālla, Tamīyahāna, the southern third of Ārvaghoṣa, Talæñoya, and the southern part of Nanašīrama. The dioceses of | The southern border between the Great Plain and the equatorial rainforest (which is, topographically, also mostly plain) is marked by a distinct biome that makes this area so special: the huge wetlands created by the many rivers that flow northward from the various hills in the northern part of the rainforest. This area is basically a huge network of swampy forests, and is known in Chlouvānem sources as the ''halumi paɂītumi no ṣveya'' - literally "wall of [[w:igapó|igapós]] and [[w:várzea forest|várzeas]]", and extends through the dioceses of Dhārvālla, Tamīyahāna, the southern third of Ārvaghoṣa, Talæñoya, and the southern part of Nanašīrama. The dioceses of Vælunyuva and Yalyakātāma, and to a lesser extent also Ñaryākātāma all have similar habitats and northward-flowing rivers (Vælunyuva's ones are outside the basins of the Great Plain), but are included in the major area of the southern rainforest instead. | ||
The Lanamilūki river, which is the one with the largest flow in the area, is particularly significant as it flows through the historical homeland of the Laifutaši culture, which was one of the indigenous cultures that influenced the Chlouvānem the most; the clearwater Lanamilūki, which flows north through eastern Talæñoya, then forms the border between Bhūsrajaiṭa and Nanašīrama before reaching Lake Lūlunīkam at Līlasuṃghāṇa, the Inquisition's capital, is also symbolically important and an extremely famous and visited area today due to the relatively unspoiled várzeas around it (and igapós around its right-bank tributaries) and the many holy sites of the Yunyalīlta. The Lanamilūki river itself is mentioned various times in the Yunyalīlti holy books. | The Lanamilūki river, which is the one with the largest flow in the area, is particularly significant as it flows through the historical homeland of the Laifutaši culture, which was one of the indigenous cultures that influenced the Chlouvānem the most; the clearwater Lanamilūki, which flows north through eastern Talæñoya, then forms the border between Bhūsrajaiṭa and Nanašīrama before reaching Lake Lūlunīkam at Līlasuṃghāṇa, the Inquisition's capital, is also symbolically important and an extremely famous and visited area today due to the relatively unspoiled várzeas around it (and igapós around its right-bank tributaries) and the many holy sites of the Yunyalīlta. The Lanamilūki river itself is mentioned various times in the Yunyalīlti holy books. | ||