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==Geography== The Dunajec is {{convert|249|km}} long, including its source river [[Czarny Dunajec (river)|Czarny Dunajec]],<ref name=yearbook>[http://stat.gov.pl/download/gfx/portalinformacyjny/en/defaultaktualnosci/3328/2/17/1/statistical_yearbook_of_the_republic_of_poland_2017.pdf Statistical Yearbook of the Republic of Poland 2017], [[Central Statistical Office (Poland)|Statistics Poland]], p. 85-86</ref> which makes it Poland's thirteenth longest river. It has a [[drainage basin|basin area]] of {{convert|6,796|km2}} ({{convert|4,838|km2|disp=sqbr|abbr=values}} in Poland, and {{convert|1958|km2|disp=sqbr|abbr=values}} 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 {{convert|500|m|ft}} [[precipice]], [[Červený Kláštor]], and two [[Pieniny]] castles in [[Czorsztyn]] and [[Niedzica Castle|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 [[Beskids|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, Lesser Poland Voivodeship|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]].
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