The town of Humenne is located in the north-east part of Eastern Slovakia, in south-west part of the district of Humenne, in the valley of the Laborec river, that flows partially along the State road No. I/74 and railway road No. 191 (Medzilaborce – Humenné – Michalovce – Trebišov – Michaľany), No.193 (Prešov – Strážske – Humenné), No. 196 (Humenné – Stakčín) Zvolen, in the altitude of 157 meters in a geomorphologic unit of upland of Ondava (Ondavská vrchovina), sub province of Outside Easte part of Carpathian Mountains, subpart Humenske podolie, part Sokol.
From a geologic standpoint, these geomorphologic units belong into a flysch mountain range, built on alternating bases of sandstone and claystone.
Some of the highest peaks are: the mount of Sokol (405 m), Petočová (378 m) and Barančov (364 m).
Humenne is neighboring with 11 other townships. Their names are Hažín nad Cirochou, Lackovce, Kochanovce, Udavské, Veľopolie, Brestov, Myslina, Závadka, Brekov, Jasenov and Ptičie. Overall area of the cadastral area of Humenne is 2867.4 hectares.
From the standpoint of hydrology, the area belongs to the basin of the Badrog River. River Laborec flows through the settled area of the town, where safety barrage was built to protect the area from floods. Water accumulation is typical, in the period from December to February, with the year’s highest flowage in the month of March and lowest in the month of September. The average annual flowage of the Laborec River in Humenne is 10 m3 per second. The cadastral border runs along with the river Laborec to East, and then it continues around the stone-pit in Jasenovo and through the north part of Sokol, continuing through the valley of Ptava creak, braking near the ground elevation of Humenne in sharp break toward the north. Then it continues over the Čarnuška habitat, crossing the state road, railway road and confluence of the rivers Laborec and Circha and runs over the valley of Hubková, when turns to the west around the ground elevation of Petočová. From the habitat Vyšná Hubková, it leads near-by the Humensky creek to south, under the Hola hora mountain it changes its direction sharply to the west and behind the creek Lieskovec, it takes comparatively fluent south-west direction towards the Brekvska gate. The whole cadastre is enclosed by a flowline of state road and near-by river Laborec.
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