Alkhayl Mountains

The Akhayl Mountains are a mountain range which extend from north to south through western edge of Istalia. In the north they constitute a natural border between Istalia and Solentia together with the Nayar Range. The Akhayl due to their origin, host many vulcanoes.

The Akhayl Mountains are traditionally divided in Lesser Akhayl and Greater Akhayl. The former are also called the Northerner massif and geologically are part of the same range of the Nayar from which is diveded by the large Sarrentian Valley, which was formed hundreds of thousands of years ago by an impressive glacier which dug this large valley, but due to the similar age, aspect and height of the two ranges, this western portion of the Nayars initially was considered as part of the Akhayl, remaining later just a geographical division. The Greater Akhayl rise along the south-eastern coast of the Peninsula from the south-westernmost point of the Lesser Akhayl to the southern plateau of which constitute the south-western border. The southern slopes of the Akhayl host one of the most impressive natural beauty of Istalia, the Alkhayl's Temperate Rainforests, which exist thanks to the climate generated by the influence of the cold streams by the Perarctic Ocean.

The Greater Akhayl have a different geological origin than the Nayar and the Lesser Akhayl, the latter, in fact, originated by the so called Dinaric Orogenesis together with many mountain ranges of Majatra. The Greater Akhayl instead are the result of other kind of tectonic plate processes, caused by the subduction of oceanic crust beneath the Majatran plate which has given rise to an important vulcanic activity and which origin is related to most part of the coastal ranges all over southern Majatra.