The name comes from a stream that comes descends the mountain (Culmin-aha, Culmna).

The mountains then descend rapidly to the north, dropping to elevations below 6200 feet near the community of Ely.

In the southwest, the mountains descend in a series of stepped foothills to the coastal plain.

The mountains descend in a huge escarpment to the Red Sea and more steadily to the Indian Ocean.

The mountains descended swiftly and after about two hours we began to wind through a series of tunnels and viaducts known as the Staircase.

Because of the way the mountain descends, it is a difficult path, but it can be followed.

The mountains descend by a much more gradual slope to the coastal plain of the Gulf of Tarentum.

The mountains descend to the southwest into the Ionian coast and Corfu in the distance to the south.

Southward the mountains descend, often in scarped ledges, to an elevated plateau devoid of perennial rivers.

On the coastal side the mountains descend abruptly along 12 km with numerous cliffs, coves and cornices.