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Gemigaya is a mythical name of one of the highest peaks of the Lesser Caucasus
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Mount Gapyjik, 3906 meters above sea level) located in Ordubad District of
Nakhchivan, south-west Azerbaijan.
The peak of the mountain collapsed back in the Tertiary period, with large pieces of
metamorphized tuff scattered throughout the southern and south-western slope. The
area also features numerous springs at the mountain hollows. For millennia, frequent
landslides and glaciers polished the rock surface to shining condition, thus providing
the primeval artists with a sort of easel to leave their petroglyphs for generations to
come.