Dunajec
The Dunajec ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; Goral dialects: Dónajec; {{#invoke:IPA|main}}) is a river running through northeastern Slovakia and southern Poland. It is also regarded as the main river of the Goral Lands. It is a right tributary of the Vistula River. It begins in Nowy Targ at the junction of two short mountain rivers, Czarny Dunajec and Biały Dunajec (Black and White Dunajec). Dunajec forms the border between Poland and Slovakia for Template:Convert<ref name=yearbook/> in the Pieniny Środkowe (Slovak: Centrálne Pieniny) range, east of the Czorsztyn reservoir.
GeographyEdit
The Dunajec is Template:Convert long, including its source river Czarny Dunajec,<ref name=yearbook>Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Poland 2017, Statistics Poland, p. 85-86</ref> which makes it Poland's thirteenth longest river. It has a basin area of Template:Convert (Template:Convert in Poland, and Template:Convert in Slovakia).<ref name=yearbook/> On the Slovak-Polish border, the Dunajec flows through the Zamagurie region, with attractions such as the Dunajec River Gorge, the Trzy Korony massif with a Template:Convert precipice, Červený Kláštor, and two Pieniny castles in Czorsztyn and Niedzica.
Below the two source streams, the Dunajec flows through a broad valley called Nowotarska Basin. It then supplies the waters of the dam in Niedzica (Jezioro Czorsztyńskie Lake) and the dam in Sromowce Wyżne (Sromowce Wyżne reservoir). Flowing through the central part of the Pieniny range, it creates a picturesque turn at the Polish Slovak border between Sromowce Wyżne and Szczawnica, where it flows by Kotuńka rock which differentiates the area from the over parts of the river. Further down, it turns to the north into the Western Beskid Mountains, and Sądecka Basin (where it merges with its own largest tributary, the Poprad river). It flows across an open valley of the Beskid Foothills and falls down across Rożnów Foothills (with two more dams: the Jezioro Rożnowskie Lake, and Jezioro Czchowskie Lake) and finally, it leads into the Sandomierz Basin and the valley of Vistula Lowlands. The Dunajec flows into the Vistula River in the vicinity of Opatowiec.
Towns and townshipsEdit
The Dunajec flows through or near these locations in Poland and north Slovakia:
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GalleryEdit
- Niedzica Castle, Niedzica-Zamek village, Nowy Targ County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland.jpg
Niedzica Castle with the Czorsztyn Castle ruins in the background
- CervenyKlastor11Slovakia6.JPG
Dunajec and the Trzy Korony Mountain
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Dunajec in autumn
- Przełom Pieniński a1.jpg
Dunajec Gorge in the Pieniny mountains
- Szczawnica Dunajec 3.jpg
Dunajec in Szczawnica
- Nowy Sącz zza Dunajca.JPG
Dunajec in Nowy Sącz
- 20170814 Jezioro Rożnowskie z Tabaszowej 5398 DxO.jpg
- Roznow zapora.jpg
Rożnów dam
- Zamek Tropsztyn - ZJ001.jpg
- Czchów i Dunajec, kwiecień 2021.jpg
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
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