Kanin, Mountain summit in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy

Canin is a mountain range in the Western Julian Alps on the border of Italy and Slovenia. Its highest summit, High Kanin, reaches 2,587 m, while Little Kanin stands at 2,571 m. The range is a vast limestone plateau between 1,800 and 2,300 m, crossed by a broad crest between the Raccolana and Resia valleys. On the Italian side, three small glaciers lie at about 2,200 m, among the lowest in the Alps.

During World War I, Italian and Austrian troops fought on the Canin's summits, and the Alpini song "Monte Canino" recounts those events. The mountain is visible from Udine and much of the Friulian plain. In earlier years Oseacco, a hamlet of Resia, won a dispute with Resiutta over possession of the Canin, after which the settlement of Coritis arose in the valley.

The mountain carries different names depending on the language spoken locally: Friulian speakers call it La Mont Cjanìne while Italian speakers use Canin, reflecting the multilingual character of this border region. These names appear in local conversations and on trail maps throughout the area.

Visitors planning to reach the summit need mountaineering equipment and experience with advanced alpine routes in this terrain. Starting early in the day with stable weather conditions gives climbers adequate daylight and time to safely descend before nightfall.

Vrtoglavica Cave, on the Kanin plateau, holds the deepest single vertical drop of any cave on Earth: a pitch of 603 metres. The karst limestone of the range also holds the Foran del Muss complex on the Italian side, which reaches 1,100 metres deep, and Čehi 2 on the Slovenian side at 1,505 metres.